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charging

Meaning of “charging”

Present-participial or verbal-noun form of charge. Sense 1: Commanding, enjoining, or solemnly requiring. Sense 2: Imputing, accusing, or charging with a fault. Sense 3: Burdening with a payment, obligation, or liability. Sense 4: Entrusting or making responsible for a person, duty, or burden.

Definition sources

KJV context and cross-referencesWebster 1828
2 occurrences2 verses2 booksKJV PCE

First occurrence: Acts 16:23

Complete exact-word concordance

Every verse containing “charging”

KJV PCE
Acts 16:23
And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely:
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Acts 16:23 · retained source text

And when they had layed many stripes vpon them, they cast them into prison, charging the Iaylour to keepe them safely.

2 Timothy 2:14
Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · 2 Timothy 2:14 · retained source text

Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord, that they striue not about words to no profite, but to the subuerting of the hearers.

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Historical definitions

Commanding or solemnly instructing.

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