Definition

to sharpen alongside, i.e. (figuratively) to exasperate

Etymology

from G3844 (παρά) and a derivative of G3691 (ὀξύς);

Word family

• παρά pará
• ὀξύς oxýs

How the KJV renders it

• easily provoke
• stir

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.