KJV dictionary & concordance
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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Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Genesis 26:5
Complete exact-word concordance
And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
And he kneeled downe, and cried with a loud voice, Lord lay not this sinne to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleepe.
And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship,
And hee arose, and went: and behold, a man of Ethiopia, an Eunuch of great authority vnder Candace queene of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Hierusalem for to worship,
Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.
Who hauing receiued such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, & made their feet fast in the stockes.
Whom I perceived to be accused of questions of their law, but to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bonds.
Whom I perceiued to be accused of questions of their lawe, but to haue nothing laide to his charge worthy of death or of bonds.
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Historical English dictionary sources
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.
