Definition

firstly (in time, place, order, or importance)

Etymology

neuter of G4413 (πρῶτος) as adverb (with or without G3588 (ὁ));

Where the KJV renders it

• before
• at the beginning
• chiefly (at
• at the) first (of all)

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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