KJV dictionary & concordance
Cuts or incisions made in the flesh, especially as a mourning practice for the dead in the prohibited acts described.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Leviticus 19:28
Complete exact-word concordance
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the Lord.
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any markes vpon you: I am the LORD.
1611 marginal noteDeut. 14.1.
They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
They shall not make baldnesse vpon their head, neither shall they shaue off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh:
1611 marginal noteChap. 19.27.
For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.
For euery head shall be bald, and euery beard clipt: vpon all the hands shall be cuttings, and vpon the loines sackcloth.
1611 marginal noteHeb. diminished.
1611 marginal noteIsai. 15.2,3.
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