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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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Esther 9:29
Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote with all authority, to confirm this second letter of Purim.
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1611 witness · Esther 9:29 · retained source text

Then Esther the Queene, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Iew, wrote with all authoritie, to confirme this second letter of Purim.

1611 marginal noteHebr. all strength.

Esther 9:31
To confirm these days of Purim in their times appointed, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for their seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry.
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1611 witness · Esther 9:31 · retained source text

To confirme these dayes of Purim, in their times appointed, according as Mordecai the Iew, and Esther the Queene had enioyned them, and as they had decreed for themselues and for their seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry.

1611 marginal noteHebr for their soules.

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

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