KJV dictionary & concordance
To desire or seek earnestly.
Definition sources
Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Galatians 4:17
Complete exact-word concordance
They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.
They zelously affect you, but not well: yea, they would exclude you, that you might affect them.
1611 marginal noteOr, vs.
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Historical English dictionary sources
To loue: sometimes to move affection.
To desire earnestly, or to mind.
To desire earnestly; to seek after.
[Latin afficio, affectum, of ad and facio, to make; affecto, to desire, from the same room. affect is to make to, or upon to press upon.] […] To aim at; aspire to; desire or entertain pretension to; as, to affect imperial sway. [See the etymology of Affair.]
