Definition

a sailor (as engaged on the salt water), i.e. (by implication) a fisher

Etymology

from G251 (ἅλς);

Word family

• ἅλς háls

How the KJV renders it

• fisher(-man)

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.