KJV dictionary & concordance
To ask alms or charity; to practice begging; to live by asking alms.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Psalms 109:10
Complete exact-word concordance
Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
Let his children bee continually vagabonds, & begge: let them seeke their bread also out of their desolate places.
The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he begge in haruest, and haue nothing.
1611 marginal noteOr, winter.
1611 marginal noteChap. 20.4.
Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my lord taketh away from me the stewardship: I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed.
Then the Steward said within himselfe, What shall I doe, for my lord taketh away from mee the Stewardship? I cannot digge, to begge I am ashamed.
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Historical English dictionary sources
To ask alms or charity; to practice begging; to live by asking alms.
