Definition

an adulteress (literally or figuratively)

Etymology

a prolonged form of the feminine of G3432 (μοιχός);

Word family

• μοιχός moichós

How the KJV renders it

• adulteress(-ous
• -y)

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.