KJV dictionary & concordance
Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of describe, meaning to set forth in words, copy, mark out, or represent plainly.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Joshua 18:9
Complete exact-word concordance
And the men went and passed through the land, and described it by cities into seven parts in a book, and came again to Joshua to the host at Shiloh.
And the men went, and passed thorow the land, and described it by cities, into seuen parts in a booke, and came againe to Ioshua to the hoste at Shiloh.
And caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and inquired of him: and he described unto him the princes of Succoth, and the elders thereof, even threescore and seventeen men.
And caught a yong man of the men of Succoth, and enquired of him: and he described vnto him the princes of Succoth and the elders thereof, euen threescore and seuenteene men.
1611 marginal noteHeb. writ.
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Historical English dictionary sources
Represented in form by marks or figures; delineated; represented by words or signs.
