Definition

rotten, i.e. worthless (literally or morally)

Etymology

from G4595 (σήπω);

Word family

• σήπω sḗpō

How the KJV renders it

• bad
• corrupt

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.