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bank

Meaning of “bank”

Sense 1: The edge or raised ground beside a river or other water. Sense 2: A mound or rampart cast up in besieging a place. Sense 3: A place where money is deposited or handled.

Definition sources

KJV context and cross-referencesSkeat 1893
14 occurrences13 verses9 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Genesis 41:17

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Ezekiel 47:12
And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Ezekiel 47:12 · retained source text

And by the riuer vpon the banke thereof on this side, and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leafe shal not fade, neither shal the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit, according to his moneths, because their waters they issued out of the Sanctuarie, and the fruite thereof shall be for meate, and the leafe thereof for medicine.

1611 marginal noteHeb. shall come vp.

1611 marginal noteOr, principall.

1611 marginal noteOr, for bruises and sores.

1611 marginal noteReu.22.2.

Daniel 12:5
¶ Then I Daniel looked, and, behold, there stood other two, the one on this side of the bank of the river, and the other on that side of the bank of the river.
2 word occurrences in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Daniel 12:5 · retained source text

¶ Then I Daniel looked, and behold, there stood other two, the one on this side of the banke of the riuer, and the other on that side of the banke of the riuer.

1611 marginal noteHebr. lip.

Luke 19:23
Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have required mine own with usury?
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Luke 19:23 · retained source text

Wherefore then gauest not thou my money into the bancke, that at my comming I might haue required mine owne with vsury?

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Historical definitions

a mound of earth, rampart, cast up in besieging a town.

printed p. 260; PDF p. 280; Internet Archive leaf n279