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bestowed

Meaning of “bestowed”

Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of bestow. Sense 1: To give or confer upon. Sense 2: To expend or apply for a purpose. Sense 3: To place or store.

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KJV context and cross-referencesWebster 1828
14 occurrences13 verses11 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: 1 Kings 10:26

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2 Chronicles 9:25
¶ And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen; whom he bestowed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.
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The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · 2 Chronicles 9:25 · retained source text

¶ And Solomon had foure thousand stalles for horses, and charets, and twelue thousand horsemen, whom hee bestowed in the charet cities, and with the king at Ierusalem.

1611 marginal note1.King. 4.26.

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Historical definitions

Given gratuitously; conferred; laid out; applied; deposited for safe-keeping.

volume 1, leaf 268, column 2 (main_dictionary)