Definition

the prætorium or governor's courtroom (sometimes including the whole edifice and camp)

Etymology

of Latin origin;

Where the KJV renders it

• (common
• judgment) hall (of judgment)
• palace
• prætorium

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.