Definition

to gain (literally or figuratively)

Etymology

from G2771 (κέρδος);

Word family

• κέρδος kérdos

How the KJV renders it

• (get) gain
• win

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.