Strong’s H6277 · Hebrew

עָתָק
ʻâthâq
aw-thawk'

Definition

impudent

Etymology

from H6275 (עָתַק) in the sense of license;

Where the KJV renders it

  • arrogancy
  • grievous (hard) things
  • stiff

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew 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

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.