Definition

properly, to protect one's honor, i.e. to avenge (inflict a penalty)

Etymology

from a comparative of G5092 (τιμή) and ouros (a guard);

Word family

• τιμή timḗ

How the KJV renders it

• punish

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.