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confirm

Meaning of “confirm”

To make firm, strengthen, establish, ratify, or give assurance of the truth or force of what is named.

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KJV context and cross-referencesWebster 1828
13 occurrences13 verses11 booksKJV PCE

First occurrence: Ruth 4:7

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2 Kings 15:19
And Pul the king of Assyria came against the land: and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.
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1611 witness · 2 Kings 15:19 · retained source text

And Pul the king of Assyria came against the land: and Menahem gaue Pul a thousand talents of siluer, that his hand might be with him, to confirm the kingdome in his hand.

1611 marginal note1.Chron. 5.26.

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To make firm or stronger; to settle or establish; to give assurance; to ratify.

volume 1, leaf 457, column 2 (main_dictionary)