Definition

a hamlet (as if laid down)

Etymology

from G2749 (κεῖμαι);

Word family

• κεῖμαι keîmai

How the KJV renders it

• town
• village

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.