Definition

an eight-day old person or act

Etymology

from G3638 (ὀκτώ) and G2250 (ἡμέρα);

Word family

• ὀκτώ oktṓ
• ἡμέρα hēméra

How the KJV renders it

• the eighth day

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.