Definition

an ancestor, (grand-)parent

Etymology

from G4266 (προγίνομαι);

Word family

• προγίνομαι progínomai

How the KJV renders it

• forefather
• parent

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.