Definition

an exit, i.e. (figuratively) death

Etymology

from G1537 (ἐκ) and G3598 (ὁδός);

Word family

• ἐκ ek
• ὁδός hodós

How the KJV renders it

• decease
• departing

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.