Definition

a greeting (in person or by letter)

Etymology

from G782 (ἀσπάζομαι);

Word family

• ἀσπάζομαι aspázomai

How the KJV renders it

• greeting
• salutation

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.