Definition

land, i.e. the (terrene part of the) globe; specially, the Roman empire

Etymology

feminine participle present passive of G3611 (οἰκέω) (as noun, by implication, of G1093 (γῆ));

Word family

• οἰκέω oikéō
• γῆ gē

How the KJV renders it

• earth
• world

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.