Definition

big (literally or figuratively, in a very wide application)

Etymology

(including the prolonged forms, feminine , plural , etc.; compare also G3176 (μέγιστος), G3187 (μείζων));

Where the KJV renders it

• (+ fear) exceedingly
• great(-est)
• high
• large
• loud
• mighty
• + (be) sore (afraid)
• strong
• X to years

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.