Definition

a hand-leader, i.e. personal conductor (of a blind person)

Etymology

from G5495 (χείρ) and a reduplicated form of G71 (ἄγω);

Word family

• χείρ cheír
• ἄγω ágō

How the KJV renders it

• some to lead by the hand

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.