Ensample' and 'example' (both from Lat. exemplum) are both used in AV. Tindale has 'ensample' only, and so all the Eng. versions until the Rhemish appeared. That version used 'example' probably as being nearer the Vulgate word exemplum. The AV frequently reveals the influence of the Rhemish version.
1. ????? 'type, model, example.' 1Co 10:11; Php 3:17; 1Th 1:7; 2Th 3:9; 1Pe 5:3.
2. ????????? 'example, pattern.' 2Pe 2:6.
Now these things befell them by way of a figure [as an example and warning to us]; they were written to admonish and fit us for right action by good instruction, we in whose days the ages have reached their climax (their consummation and concluding period).
Brethren, together follow my example and observe those who live after the pattern we have set for you.
And He condemned to ruin and extinction the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, reducing them to ashes [and thus] set them forth as an example to those who would be ungodly;