KJV dictionary & concordance
To set apart or dedicate a person, time, service, or thing to a sacred or religious office or use.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Exodus 28:3
Complete exact-word concordance
And ye shall not go out of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation in seven days, until the days of your consecration be at an end: for seven days shall he consecrate you.
And ye shall not goe out of the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation in seuen dayes, vntill the dayes of your consecration be at an end: for seuen dayes shall he consecrate you.
1611 marginal noteExod. 29.35.
And the priest, whom he shall anoint, and whom he shall consecrate to minister in the priest’s office in his father’s stead, shall make the atonement, and shall put on the linen clothes, even the holy garments:
And the Priest whom he shall anoynt, and whom he shall consecrate to minister in the Priests office in his fathers stead, shall make the atonement, and shal put on the linnen clothes, euen the holy garments.
1611 marginal noteHebr. fill his hand.
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Historical English dictionary sources
To set apart, dedicate, or make holy.
To set apart, dedicate, or make holy.
To appropriate to sacred uses; to set apart, dedicate, or devote, to the service and worship of God.
