KJV dictionary & concordance
Sense 1: The act or process of coming into life or bringing forth. Sense 2: That which is born; offspring. Sense 3: Origin, lineage, or one's place or condition as determined by birth.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Exodus 28:10
Complete exact-word concordance
Six of their names on one stone, and the other six names of the rest on the other stone, according to their birth.
Sixe of their names on one stone, and the other sixe names of the rest on the other stone, according to their birth:
And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
And they sayd vnto him, Thus sayth Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemie: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring foorth.
1611 marginal noteOr, prouocation.
Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
Or as an hidden vntimely birth, I had not bene; as infants which neuer saw light.
As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
As a snaile which melteth, let euery one of them passe away: like the vntimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sunne.
¶ If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
¶ If a man beget an hundred children, and liue many yeeres, so that the dayes of his yeeres bee many: and his soule be not filled with good, and also that he haue no buriall, I say, that an vntimely birth is better then he.
A GOOD name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one’s birth.
¶ A Good name is better then precious ointment: and the day of death, then the day of ones birth.
1611 marginal noteProu.23.1 and 15.30.
And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
And they sayd vnto him; Thus sayth Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemie: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring foorth.
1611 marginal noteOr, prouocation.
Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the Lord: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? saith thy God.
Shall I bring to the birth, & not cause to bring forth, saith the LORD? shall I cause to bring foorth, and shut the wombe, sayth thy God?
1611 marginal noteOr, beget.
And say, Thus saith the Lord God unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.
And say, Thus saith the LORD God vnto Ierusalem; Thy birth and thy natiuitie is of the land of Canaan, thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.
1611 marginal noteHeb. cutting out, or habitation.
As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.
As for Ephraim, their glory shall flee away like a bird: from the birth and from the wombe, and from the conception.
Select a book to filter the concordance. Occurrences and verses are counted separately.
Source order
1 · KJV context and cross-references
Historical English dictionary sources
The act of coming into life, or of being born. Lineage; extraction; descent. The condition in which a person is born. That which is born; that which is produced. The act of bringing forth. Origin; beginning.
