KJV dictionary & concordance
Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of desire, meaning to wish for, long for, request, or take pleasure in.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Genesis 3:6
Complete exact-word concordance
But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you;
But ye denied the Holy one, and the Iust, and desired a murderer to be granted vnto you,
1611 marginal noteMatt. 27.20.
Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.
Who found fauour before God, and desired to find a Tabernacle for the God of Iacob.
And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him.
And hee said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip, that hee would come vp, and sit with him.
And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.
And desired of him letters to Damascus, to the Synagogues, that if hee found any of this way, whether they were men or women, hee might bring them bound vnto Hierusalem.
¶ And Herod was highly displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon: but they came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus the king’s chamberlain their friend, desired peace; because their country was nourished by the king’s country.
¶ And Herode was highly displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon: but they came with one accord to him, and hauing made Blastus the kings chamberlaine their friend, desired peace, because their countrey was nourished by the kings countrey.
1611 marginal noteOr, bare an hostile mind intending warre.
1611 marginal noteGr. that was ouer the kings bed-chamber.
Which was with the deputy of the country, Sergius Paulus, a prudent man; who called for Barnabas and Saul, and desired to hear the word of God.
Which was with the deputie of the countrey Sergius Paulus, a prudent man: who called for Barnabas and Saul, and desired to heare the word of God.
And afterward they desired a king: and God gave unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years.
And afterward they desired a King, and God gaue vnto them Saul the sonne of Cis, a man of the tribe of Beniamin, by the space of fourty yeres.
1611 marginal note1.Sam. 8.5.
And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain.
And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate that he should be slaine.
1611 marginal noteMat. 27.22.
And they came and besought them, and brought them out, and desired them to depart out of the city.
And they came and besought them, and brought them out, and desired them to depart out of the citie.
When they desired him to tarry longer time with them, he consented not;
When they desired him to tary longer time with them, hee consented not:
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Historical English dictionary sources
Wished for; coveted; requested; entreated.
