Definition

properly, to provide for, i.e. (by implication) to carry off (as if from harm; genitive case obtain)

Etymology

from a primary (to tend, i.e. take care of);

Where the KJV renders it

• bring
• receive

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

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.