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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Esther 3:9

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If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to bring it into the king’s treasuries.

1 word occurrence in this verse

The 1611 reading & marginal notes

1611 witness · Esther 3:9 · retained source text

If it please the king, let it be written, that they may be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of siluer to the handes of those that haue the charge of the businesse, to bring it into the kings treasuries.

1611 marginal noteHeb. to destroy them.

1611 marginal noteHeb. weigh.

Esther 4:8

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Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given at Shushan to destroy them, to shew it unto Esther, and to declare it unto her, and to charge her that she should go in unto the king, to make supplication unto him, and to make request before him for her people.

1 word occurrence in this verse

The 1611 reading

1611 witness · Esther 4:8 · retained source text

Also he gaue him the copie of the writing of the decree, that was giuen at Shushan to destroy them, to shewe it vnto Esther, and to declare it vnto her, and to charge her that she should goe in vnto the king, to make supplication vnto him, and to make request before him, for her people.

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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