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accept

Meaning of “accept”

Sense 1: To receive or consent to what is offered; to approve. Sense 2: To regard with favour or partiality.

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KJV context and cross-referencesWebster 1828
25 occurrences25 verses14 booksKJV PCE

First occurrence: Genesis 32:20

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Job 42:8
Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.
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1611 witness · Job 42:8 · retained source text

Therefore take vnto you now seuen bullocks, and seuen rammes, and goe to my seruant Iob, and offer vp for your selues a burnt offring, and my seruant Iob shal pray for you, for him wil I accept: lest I deale with you after your folly, in that ye haue not spoken of mee the thing which is right, like my seruant Iob.

1611 marginal noteHeb. his face or person.

Psalms 20:3
Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice; Selah.
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1611 witness · Psalms 20:3 · retained source text

Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice. Selah.

1611 marginal noteHeb. turne to ashes: or, make fat.

Psalms 82:2
How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.
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1611 witness · Psalms 82:2 · retained source text

How long will yee iudge vniustly: and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.

1611 marginal noteDeut. 1.17.

Proverbs 18:5
It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.
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1611 witness · Proverbs 18:5 · retained source text

It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to ouerthrowe the righteous in iudgement.

1611 marginal noteChap.24.23. leuit. 19.15 deut.11.7. and 16.19.

Jeremiah 14:10
¶ Thus saith the Lord unto this people, Thus have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the Lord doth not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 14:10 · retained source text

¶ Thus saith the LORD vnto this people, Thus haue they loued to wander, they haue not refrained their feete, therefore the LORD doeth not accept them, hee will now remember their iniquitie, and visite their sinnes.

Jeremiah 14:12
When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 14:12 · retained source text

When they fast I will not heare their crie, and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation I wil not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.

1611 marginal noteProu.1.28 isa.1.15. cha.11.11. ezek. 8.18. mic. 3.4.

Ezekiel 20:40
For in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, saith the Lord God, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, serve me: there will I accept them, and there will I require your offerings, and the firstfruits of your oblations, with all your holy things.
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For in mine holy mountaine, in the mountaine of the height of Israel, saith the LORD God, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them in the land serue me: there will I accept them, and there wil I require your offerings, and the first fruits of your oblations, with all your holy things.

1611 marginal noteOr, chiefe.

Ezekiel 20:41
I will accept you with your sweet savour, when I bring you out from the people, and gather you out of the countries wherein ye have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you before the heathen.
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I will accept you with your sweet sauour, when I bring you out from the people, and gather you out of the countreys wherein yee haue bene scattered, and I wil be sanctified in you before the heathen.

1611 marginal noteHebr. sauour of rest.

Ezekiel 43:27
And when these days are expired, it shall be, that upon the eighth day, and so forward, the priests shall make your burnt offerings upon the altar, and your peace offerings; and I will accept you, saith the Lord God.
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1611 witness · Ezekiel 43:27 · retained source text

And when these dayes are expired, it shall be that vpon the eight day and so forward, the Priests shall make your burnt offerings vpon the Altar, and your peace offerings; and I will accept you, saith the LORD God.

1611 marginal noteOr, thanke-offrings.

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To take or receive what is offered, with a consenting mind; to receive with approbation or favor. To regard with partiality; to value or esteem. To consent or agree to; to receive as terms of a contract.

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