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
That I gave my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the ruler of the palace, charge over Jerusalem: for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many.
That I gaue my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the ruler of the palace, charge ouer Ierusalem (for hee was a faithfull man, and feared God aboue many.)
Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God;
Also we made ordinances for vs, to charge our selues yeerely, with the third part of a shekel, for the seruice of the house of our God,
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.
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.
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.
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.
Who hath given him a charge over the earth? or who hath disposed the whole world?
Who hath giuen him a charge ouer the earth? or who hath disposed the whole world?
1611 marginal noteHebr. all of it.
False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.
False witnesses did rise vp they layd to my charge things that I knew not.
1611 marginal noteHeb. witnesses of wrong.
1611 marginal noteHeb. they asked me.
For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.
For hee shall giue his Angels charge ouer thee: to keepe thee in all thy wayes.
1611 marginal noteMatt. 4.6. luke 4.10.
I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.
I charge you, O ye daughters of Ierusalem, by the Roes, and by the hindes of the field, that ye stirre not vp, nor awake my loue, till she please.
1611 marginal noteHeb. I adiure you.
1611 marginal noteChap.3.5. and 8.4.
I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.
I charge you, O ye daughters of Ierusalem, by the Roes and by the Hindes of the field, that ye stirre not vp, nor awake my loue, till he please.
1611 marginal noteChap 2.7. and 8.4.
I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.
I charge you, O daughters of Ierusalem, if ye find my beloued, that yee tell him, that I am sicke of loue.
1611 marginal noteHeb. what.
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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.
