Definition

a jerk (of the eye, i.e. (by analogy) an instant)

Etymology

from G4496 (ῥίπτω);

Word family

• ῥίπτω rhíptō

How the KJV renders it

• twinkling

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.