Definition

to venerate, i.e. adore

Etymology

middle voice from a derivative of G4576 (σέβομαι);

Word family

• σέβομαι sébomai

How the KJV renders it

• worship

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.