Definition

a petty fish

Etymology

diminutive from G2486 (ἰχθύς);

Word family

• ἰχθύς ichthýs

How the KJV renders it

• little (small) fish

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.