Definition

a relative (by blood); by extension, a fellow countryman

Etymology

from G4862 (σύν) and G1085 (γένος);

Where the KJV renders it

• cousin
• kin(-sfolk
• -sman)

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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