KJV dictionary & concordance
Raised or promoted to a higher position, rank, or honor.
Definition sources
First occurrence: 1 Samuel 12:6
Complete exact-word concordance
¶ And Samuel said unto the people, It is the Lord that advanced Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.
¶ And Samuel said vnto the people, It is the LORD that aduanced Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers vp out of the land of Egypt.
1611 marginal noteOr, made.
AFTER these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes that were with him.
¶ After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman, the sonne of Amedatha the Agagite, and aduanced him, and set his seate aboue all the princes that were with him.
And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all the things wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.
And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all the things wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had aduanced him aboue the Princes, and seruants of the king.
And all the acts of his power and of his might, and the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai, whereunto the king advanced him, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?
And all the actes of his power, and of his might, and the declaration of the greatnesse of Mordecai, whereunto the king aduanced him, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?
1611 marginal noteHeb. made him great.
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Historical English dictionary sources
Moved forward; promoted; raised to a higher rank or position.
