KJV dictionary & concordance
Present-participial or verbal-noun form of confess, meaning to make confession; to disclose faults, or the state of the conscience.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Daniel 9:20
Complete exact-word concordance
¶ And whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the Lord my God for the holy mountain of my God;
¶ And whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sinne, and the sinne of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God, for the holy Mountaine of my God:
And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins.
And were baptized of him in Iordane, confessing their sinnes.
And there went out unto him all the land of Judæa, and they of Jerusalem, and were all baptized of him in the river of Jordan, confessing their sins.
And there went out vnto him all the land of Iudea, and they of Ierusalem, and were all baptized of him in the riuer of Iordane, cofessing their sinnes.
1611 marginal noteMatt. 3.5.
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Historical English dictionary sources
Owning; avowing; declaring to be true or real; granting or admitting by assent.
