Definition

for which another prolonged form () is used as an alternate in some tenses (unless indeed it be identical with the base of G3686 (ὄνομα) through the idea of notoriety); to gratify, i.e. (middle voice) to derive pleasure or advantage from

Etymology

a prolonged form of an apparently primary verb (, to slur);

Where the KJV renders it

• have joy

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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