Definition

to be sick, i.e. (by implication, of a diseased appetite) to hanker after (figuratively, to harp upon)

Etymology

from G3554 (νόσος);

Word family

• νόσος nósos

How the KJV renders it

• dote

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.