KJV dictionary & concordance
Past-tense or past-participial form of defy (to dare; to provoke to combat or strife, by appealing to the courage of another; to invite one to contest; to challenge).
Definition sources
First occurrence: Numbers 23:8
Complete exact-word concordance
How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the Lord hath not defied?
How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defie, whom the LORD hath not defied?
Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God.
Thy seruant slew both the Lyon and the Beare: and this vncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the liuing God.
Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Then said Dauid to the Philistine, Thou commest to mee with a sword, and with a speare, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the Name of the LORD of hostes, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
And when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea the brother of David slew him.
And when he defied Israel, Ionathan the sonne of Shimea the brother of Dauid, slew him.
1611 marginal noteOr, reproched.
1611 marginal note1.Sam. 16.9.
And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines that were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were gone away:
And after him was Eleazar the sonne of Dodo the Ahohite, one of the three mightie men with Dauid, when they defied the Philistines that were there gathered together to battell, and the men of Israel were gone away.
1611 marginal note1.Chron. 11.12.
But when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea David’s brother slew him.
But when he defied Israel, Ionathan the sonne of Shimea Dauids brother, slew him.
1611 marginal noteOr, reproched.
1611 marginal noteCalled Shammah, 1.Sam. 16.9.
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