Definition

adroitness, i.e. (in a bad sense) trickery or sophistry

Etymology

from G3835 (πανοῦργος);

Word family

• πανοῦργος panoûrgos

How the KJV renders it

• (cunning) craftiness
• subtilty

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.