Definition

to render secure

Etymology

from G804 (ἀσφαλής);

Word family

• ἀσφαλής asphalḗs

How the KJV renders it

• make fast (sure)

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.