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coveted

Meaning of “coveted”

Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of covet. Sense 1: To desire or long for earnestly. Sense 2: To desire unlawfully or greedily what belongs to another.

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First occurrence: Joshua 7:21

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Every verse containing “coveted”

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Joshua 7:21
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When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Joshua 7:21 · retained source text

When I saw among the spoiles a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of siluer, and a wedge of gold of fiftie shekels weight, then I coueted them, and tooke them, and behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the siluer vnder it.

1611 marginal noteHeb. tongue

Acts 20:33
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I have coveted no man’s silver, or gold, or apparel.
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The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Acts 20:33 · retained source text

I haue coueted no mans siluer, or golde, or apparell.

1 Timothy 6:10
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For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
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The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · 1 Timothy 6:10 · retained source text

For the loue of money is the root of all euill, which while some coueted after, they haue erred from the faith, and pierced themselues through with many sorrowes.

1611 marginal noteOr, bene seduced.

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