KJV dictionary & concordance

degenerate

Meaning of “degenerate”

Having departed or deteriorated from an original or proper kind or character.

Definition sources

KJV context and cross-referencesBullokar 1616Cawdrey 1604

1 occurrence1 verse1 bookKJV PCE

First occurrence: Jeremiah 2:21

Complete exact-word concordance

KJV PCE

Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?

1 word occurrence in this verse

The 1611 reading & marginal notes

1611 witness · Jeremiah 2:21 · retained source text

Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholy a right seede: How then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine vnto me?

1611 marginal noteMatth.21.23. mar.12.1. luc.20.9.

1611 marginal noteExod.15.17. psal.44.3. and 80.9. Isai.5.2.

Source order

1 · KJV context and cross-references

Historical English dictionary sources

To turne out of kind.

paragraph 1135

Be unlike his auncestours: to grow out of kind.

paragraph 698