Definition

to escape by swimming

Etymology

from G1537 (ἐκ) and G2860 (κολυμβάω);

Word family

• ἐκ ek
• κολυμβάω kolymbáō

How the KJV renders it

• swim out

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.