Definition

an ower, i.e. person indebted; figuratively, a delinquent; morally, a transgressor (against God)

Etymology

from G3784 (ὀφείλω);

Word family

• ὀφείλω opheílō

How the KJV renders it

• debtor
• which owed
• sinner

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.