Definition

properly, without kin, i.e. (of unknown descent, and by implication) ignoble

Etymology

from G1 (Α) (as negative particle) and G1085 (γένος);

Word family

• Α A
• γένος génos

How the KJV renders it

• base things

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.