KJV dictionary & concordance
Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of call. Sense 1: To name. Sense 2: To summon or invite. Sense 3: To proclaim or address. Sense 4: To request.
Definition sources
Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Genesis 1:5
Complete exact-word concordance
Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
Male and female created hee them, and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
1611 marginal noteWisd. 2.23.
¶ And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
¶ And Adam liued an hundred and thirtie yeeres, and begate a sonne in his owne likenesse, after his image; and called his name Seth.
And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the Lord hath cursed.
And he called his name Noah, saying; This same shall comfort vs, concerning our woorke and toyle of our hands, because of the ground, which the LORD hath cursed.
Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Therefore is the name of it called Babel, because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad vpon the face of all the earth.
1611 marginal noteThat is, Confusion.
And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Beth-el, and pitched his tent, having Beth-el on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the Lord, and called upon the name of the Lord.
And he remoued from thence vnto a mountaine, on the East of Beth-el, and pitched his tent hauing Beth-el on the West, and Hai on the East: and there hee builded an altar vnto the LORD, and called vpon the Name of the LORD.
And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?
And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou hast done vnto me? Why diddest thou not tell me, that she was thy wife?
Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of the Lord.
Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the Name of the LORD.
1611 marginal noteChap. 12.7.
And she called the name of the Lord that spake unto her, Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after him that seeth me?
And shee called the name of the LORD that spake vnto her, Thou God seest me: for she said, Haue I also here looked after him that seeth me?
Wherefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
Wherefore the well was called, Beer-lahai-roi: Behold, It is betweene Cadesh and Bered.
1611 marginal noteThat is, the well of him that liueth and seeeth me.
1611 marginal noteChap. 24.62.
¶ And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son’s name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael.
¶ And Hagar bare Abram a sonne: and Abram called his sonnes name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael.
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Historical English dictionary sources
Invited; summoned; addressed; named; appointed; invoked; assembled by order; recited.
