KJV dictionary & concordance

bewray

Meaning of “bewray”

To disclose, reveal, betray, or make a person or hidden matter known.

Definition sources

KJV context and cross-referencesSkeat 1893Webster 1828

1 occurrence1 verse1 bookKJV PCE

First occurrence: Isaiah 16:3

Complete exact-word concordance

KJV PCE

Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.

1 word occurrence in this verse

The 1611 reading & marginal notes

1611 witness · Isaiah 16:3 · retained source text

Take counsell, execute Iudgement, make thy shadow as the night in the middest of the nooneday, hide the outcastes, bewray not him that wandereth.

1611 marginal noteHeb. bring.

Source order

1 · KJV context and cross-references

Historical English dictionary sources

To expose; to reveal.

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

beray. To disclose perfidiously; to betray; to show or make visible. Thy speech bewrayeth thee. Matthew 26:73. [This word is nearly antiquated.]

volume 1, leaf 271, column 1 (entry starts at OCR line 26)