Definition

to favor an individual, i.e. show partiality

Etymology

from G4381 (προσωπολήπτης);

Word family

• προσωπολήπτης prosōpolḗptēs

How the KJV renders it

• have respect to persons

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.