Definition

lofty (in place or character)

Etymology

from G5311 (ὕψος);

Word family

• ὕψος hýpsos

How the KJV renders it

• high(-er
• -ly) (esteemed)

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.