Definition

venerableness, i.e. probity

Etymology

from G4586 (σεμνός);

Word family

• σεμνός semnós

How the KJV renders it

• gravity
• honesty

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.