Definition

niggardly

Etymology

or כֵּלַי; from H3557 (כּוּל) in the sense of withholding;

Word family

• כּוּל kûwl

How the KJV renders it

• churl

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.