KJV dictionary & concordance

charge

Meaning of “charge”

Sense 1: To command, enjoin, or solemnly require; a command or injunction. Sense 2: A duty, trust, care, oversight, or a person or thing entrusted. Sense 3: To impute or accuse; an accusation or liability imputed. Sense 4: To impose a burden, payment, or obligation; a cost or expense. Sense 5: To entrust with or make responsible for a person, duty, or burden.

Definition sources

KJV context and cross-referencesWebster 1828

102 occurrences94 verses29 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Genesis 26:5

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2 Kings 7:17

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¶ And the king appointed the lord on whose hand he leaned to have the charge of the gate: and the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died, as the man of God had said, who spake when the king came down to him.

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The 1611 reading

1611 witness · 2 Kings 7:17 · retained source text

¶ And the king appointed the lord on whose hand he leaned, to haue the charge of the gate: and the people trode vpon him in the gate, and he died, as the man of God had said, who spake when the king came downe to him.

Complete reference index — all 94 verses

Genesis 26:5 Genesis 28:6 Exodus 6:13 Exodus 19:21 Leviticus 8:35 Numbers 1:53 Numbers 3:7 Numbers 3:8 Numbers 3:25 Numbers 3:28 Numbers 3:31 Numbers 3:32 Numbers 3:36 Numbers 3:38 Numbers 4:27 Numbers 4:28 Numbers 4:31 Numbers 4:32 Numbers 5:19 Numbers 5:21 Numbers 8:26 Numbers 9:19 Numbers 9:23 Numbers 18:3 Numbers 18:4 Numbers 18:5 Numbers 18:8 Numbers 27:19 Numbers 27:23 Numbers 31:30 Numbers 31:47 Numbers 31:49 Deuteronomy 3:28 Deuteronomy 11:1 Deuteronomy 21:8 Deuteronomy 31:14 Deuteronomy 31:23 Joshua 22:3 2 Samuel 14:8 2 Samuel 18:5 1 Kings 2:3 1 Kings 4:28 1 Kings 11:28 2 Kings 7:17 1 Chronicles 9:27 1 Chronicles 9:28 1 Chronicles 22:12 1 Chronicles 23:32 2 Chronicles 13:11 2 Chronicles 30:17 Nehemiah 7:2 Nehemiah 10:32 Esther 3:9 Esther 4:8 Job 34:13 Psalms 35:11 Psalms 91:11 Song of Solomon 2:7 Song of Solomon 3:5 Song of Solomon 5:8 Song of Solomon 5:9 Song of Solomon 8:4 Isaiah 10:6 Jeremiah 39:11 Jeremiah 47:7 Jeremiah 52:25 Ezekiel 9:1 Ezekiel 40:45 Ezekiel 40:46 Ezekiel 44:8 Ezekiel 44:11 Ezekiel 44:14 Ezekiel 44:15 Ezekiel 44:16 Ezekiel 48:11 Zechariah 3:7 Matthew 4:6 Mark 9:25 Luke 4:10 Acts 7:60 Acts 8:27 Acts 16:24 Acts 23:29 Romans 8:33 1 Corinthians 9:18 1 Thessalonians 5:27 1 Timothy 1:3 1 Timothy 1:18 1 Timothy 5:7 1 Timothy 5:21 1 Timothy 6:13 1 Timothy 6:17 2 Timothy 4:1 2 Timothy 4:16

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Genesis 26:5 Numbers 3:38 Numbers 27:19 1 Kings 2:3 Esther 4:8 Ezekiel 9:1 Acts 8:27 2 Timothy 4:16 Numbers 3:31 Numbers 5:19 Numbers 18:8 Deuteronomy 21:8 Nehemiah 10:32 Psalms 35:11 Psalms 91:11 1 Corinthians 9:18 1 Timothy 1:18 1 Timothy 6:17

Historical English dictionary sources

Historical definitions

Webster 1828

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To lay on, as a duty. To entrust to. To impute to. To censure; to accuse. To lay on, give or communicate, as an order, command or earnest request; to enjoin; to exhort. An order, injunction, mandate, command. That which is enjoined, committed, entrusted or delivered to another. Imputation in a bad sense; accusation. Cost; expense.

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