KJV dictionary & concordance
Sense 1: At or from a great distance. Sense 2: Figuratively, remote, estranged, or absent.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Genesis 22:4
Complete exact-word concordance
By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation; who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea:
By terrible things in righteousnesse, wilt thou answere vs, O God of our saluation: who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are a farre off vpon the sea.
Though the Lord be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: but the proud he knoweth afar off.
Though the LORD be high, yet hath he respect vnto the lowly: but the proud he knoweth afarre off.
Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.
Thou knowest my downe sitting, and mine vprising: thou vnderstandest my thought afarre off.
She is like the merchants’ ships; she bringeth her food from afar.
She is like the merchants ships, she bringeth her food from afarre.
Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.
Is this your ioyous citie, whose antiquitie is of ancient dayes? her owne feete shall cary her afarre off to soiourne.
1611 marginal noteHeb. from afarre off.
And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
And iudgement is turned away backward, and iustice standeth a farre off: for truth is fallen in the streete, and equitie cannot enter.
And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal, and Javan, to the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles.
And I will set a signe among them, and I will send those that escape of them vnto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal and Iauan, to the Iles afarre off, that haue not heard my fame, neither haue seene my glory, and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles.
Am I a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off?
Am I a God at hand, sayth the LORD, and not a God afarre off?
¶ Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the Lord; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid.
¶ Therefore feare thou not, O my seruant Iacob, saith the LORD, neither be dismayed, O Israel; for loe, I will saue thee from afarre, and thy seede from the land of their captiuitie, and Iacob shall returne, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid.
1611 marginal noteIsa.41.13. and 43.5. and 44.1. Cha. 46.28.
¶ Hear the word of the Lord, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock.
¶ Heare the word of the LORD, O yee nations, and declare it in the iles afarre off, and say; Hee that scattered Israel will gather him, and keepe him as a shepheard doth his flocke.
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Historical English dictionary sources
At a distance in place; to or from a distance. In Scripture, figuratively, estranged in affection; alienated. Absent; not assisting.
