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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.

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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 Timothy 4:1
I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · 2 Timothy 4:1 · retained source text

¶ I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Iesus Christ, who shall iudge the quicke and the dead at his appearing, and his kingdome:

2 Timothy 4:16
At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge.
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1611 witness · 2 Timothy 4:16 · retained source text

At my first answere no man stood with mee, but all men forsooke mee: I pray God that it may not bee laid to their charge.

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Historical definitions

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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