KJV dictionary & concordance
Sense 1: To carry, support, convey, endure, sustain, or be answerable for. Sense 2: To produce or bring forth offspring, fruit, or another result. Sense 3: In ‘bear witness’ or ‘bear record,’ to testify or give witness. Sense 4: A large wild animal.
Definition sources
Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Genesis 4:13
Complete exact-word concordance
If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.
If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thy selfe: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt beare it.
The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute.
The hand of the diligent shall beare rule: but the slouthfull shall bee vnder tribute.
1611 marginal noteOr, deceitfull.
1611 marginal noteCha.10.4.
Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.
Let a beare robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather then a foole in his folly.
The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?
The spirit of a man will sustaine his infirmitie: but a wounded spirit who can beare?
As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people.
As a roaring lyon and a ranging beare: so is a wicked ruler ouer the poore people.
For three things the earth is disquieted, and for four which it cannot bear:
For three things the earth is disquieted, and for foure which it cannot beare:
Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them.
Thy teeth are like a flocke of sheepe that are euen shorne, which came vp from the washing: whereof euery one beare twinnes, and none is barren among them.
Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
Your new Moones, and your appointed Feasts my soule hateth: they are a trouble vnto me, I am weary to beare them.
Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
Therefore the LORD himselfe shal giue you a signe: Behold, a Uirgine shall conceiue and beare a Sonne, and shall call his name Immanuel.
1611 marginal noteOr, thou, O Virgin, shalt call.
1611 marginal noteMath.1.23. luc.1.31.
And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
And the cow and the beare shall feed, their yong ones shall lie downe together: and the lyon shall eate straw like the oxe.
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