Definition

a ruler or officer

Etymology

from G1410 (δύναμαι);

Word family

• δύναμαι dýnamai

How the KJV renders it

• of great authority
• mighty
• potentate

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.