Definition

a self-committal (by assurance of conferring some good)

Etymology

from G1861 (ἐπαγγέλλω);

Word family

• ἐπαγγέλλω epangéllō

How the KJV renders it

• promise

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.