Definition

a mosquito (from its stinging proboscis)

Etymology

apparently a derivative of the base of G2759 (κέντρον) and a derivative of G3700 (ὀπτάνομαι);

Where the KJV renders it

• gnat

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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