Definition

aspersion (ceremonially or figuratively)

Etymology

from G4472 (ῥαντίζω);

Word family

• ῥαντίζω rhantízō

How the KJV renders it

• sprinkling

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.