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bestead

Meaning of “bestead”

Placed in a condition; in “hardly bestead,” sorely pressed, distressed, or brought into severe difficulty.

Definition sources

KJV context and cross-referencesSkeat 1893
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First occurrence: Isaiah 8:21

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The KJV occurrence

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Isaiah 8:21
And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Isaiah 8:21 · retained source text

And they shall passe through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to passe, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselues, and curse their King, and their God, and looke vpward.

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Historical English dictionary sources

Historical definitions

Situated, circumstanced, beset. Hardly bestead, beset with difficulties.

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