Definition

interrogative pronoun (of amount) how much (large, long or (plural) many)

Etymology

from an absolute (who, what) and G3739 (ὅς);

Where the KJV renders it

• how great (long
• many)
• what

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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