Definition

a stick of timber

Etymology

from G1209 (δέχομαι) (through the idea of holding up);

Word family

• δέχομαι déchomai

How the KJV renders it

• beam

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.