Definition

not spoken out, i.e. (by implication) unutterable

Etymology

from G1 (Α) (as a negative particle) and a presumed derivative of G1583 (ἐκλαλέω);

Word family

• Α A
• ἐκλαλέω eklaléō

How the KJV renders it

• unspeakable

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.