Definition

an Æthiopian (as a blackamoor)

Etymology

from (to scorch) and (the face, from G3700 (ὀπτάνομαι));

Word family

• ὀπτάνομαι optánomai

How the KJV renders it

• Ethiopian

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.