Definition

be thou; also , third person of the same; let them be

Etymology

second person singular present imperative of G1510 (εἰμί);

Word family

• εἰμί eimí

How the KJV renders it

• be

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.