Definition

middle (as an adjective or (neuter) noun)

Etymology

from G3326 (μετά);

Where the KJV renders it

• among
• X before them
• between
• + forth
• mid(-day
• -night)
• midst
• way

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.