Definition

properly, suffering ("pathos"), i.e. (subjectively) a passion (especially concupiscence)

Etymology

from the alternate of G3958 (πάσχω);

Word family

• πάσχω páschō

How the KJV renders it

• (inordinate) affection
• lust

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.