Definition

asseveration on oath

Etymology

from a compound of G3727 (ὅρκος) and a derivative of G3660 (ὀμνύω);

Word family

• ὅρκος hórkos
• ὀμνύω omnýō

How the KJV renders it

• oath

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.