Definition

something spread thoroughly, i.e. (specially) the door screen (to the Most Holy Place) in the Jewish Temple

Etymology

from a compound of G2596 (κατά) and a congener of G4072 (πέτομαι);

Where the KJV renders it

• vail

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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