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chiefest

Meaning of “chiefest”

Highest in rank, importance, or excellence.

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8 occurrences8 verses5 booksKJV PCE

First occurrence: 1 Samuel 2:29

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1 Samuel 2:29
Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · 1 Samuel 2:29 · retained source text

Wherefore kicke ye at my sacrifice, and at mine offering, which I haue commaunded in my habitation, and honourest thy sonnes aboue mee, to make your selues fat with the chiefest of all the offrings of Israel my people?

1 Samuel 9:22
And Samuel took Saul and his servant, and brought them into the parlour, and made them sit in the chiefest place among them that were bidden, which were about thirty persons.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · 1 Samuel 9:22 · retained source text

And Samuel tooke Saul, and his seruant, and brought them into the parlour, & made them sit in the chiefest place among them that were bidden, which were about thirtie persons.

1 Samuel 21:7
Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the Lord; and his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the chiefest of the herdmen that belonged to Saul.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · 1 Samuel 21:7 · retained source text

Now a certaine man of the seruants of Saul was there that day, detained before the LORD, and his name was Doeg an Edomite, the chiefest of the heardmen that belonged to Saul.

2 Chronicles 32:33
And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the chiefest of the sepulchres of the sons of David: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honour at his death. And Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · 2 Chronicles 32:33 · retained source text

And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the chiefest of the Sepulchres of the sonnes of Dauid: and all Iudah and the inhabitants of Ierusalem did him honour at his death: and Manasseh his sonne reigned in his stead.

1611 marginal noteOr, highest.

Song of Solomon 5:10
My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Song of Solomon 5:10 · retained source text

My beloued is white and ruddy, the chiefest among tenne thousand.

1611 marginal noteHeb. astandard bearer

Mark 10:44
And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Mark 10:44 · retained source text

And whosoeuer of you will bee the chiefest, shalbe seruant of all.

2 Corinthians 12:11
I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · 2 Corinthians 12:11 · retained source text

I am become a foole in glorying, ye haue compelled me. For I ought to haue beene commended of you: for in nothing am I behinde the very chiefest Apostles, though I be nothing.

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