Definition

to lot, i.e. determine (by implication, receive) especially by lot

Etymology

a prolonged form of a primary verb, which is only used as an alternate in certain tenses;

Where the KJV renders it

• his lot be
• cast lots
• obtain

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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