Definition

permission, i.e. (by implication) full power

Etymology

from G2010 (ἐπιτρέπω);

Word family

• ἐπιτρέπω epitrépō

How the KJV renders it

• commission

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.