Definition

properly (in the plural) the top of the heap, i.e. (by implication) best of the booty

Etymology

from G206 (ἄκρον) and (a heap);

Word family

• ἄκρον ákron

How the KJV renders it

• spoils

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.