Definition

a Python, i.e. (by analogy, with the supposed diviner there) inspiration (soothsaying)

Etymology

from (the name of the region where Delphi, the seat of the famous oracle, was located);

Where the KJV renders it

• divination

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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