Strong’s G5608 · Greek

ὠνέομαι
ōnéomai

Definition

to purchase (synonymous with the earlier G4092 (πίμπρημι))

Etymology

middle voice from an apparently primary (a sum or price);

Where the KJV renders it

  • buy

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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