KJV dictionary & concordance

desolate

Meaning of “desolate”

1. Of a place or land, left empty, uninhabited, waste, ruined, barren, or without former use and fruitfulness. 2. Of a person or people, bereft, forsaken, solitary, or left without help, comfort, family, or support. 3. As a verb, to make empty, waste, ruined, or bereft.

Definition sources

KJV context and cross-referencesCawdrey 1604

148 occurrences132 verses25 booksKJV PCE

Some verses contain the word more than once.

First occurrence: Genesis 47:19

Complete exact-word concordance

Every verse containing “desolate”

KJV PCE

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And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered it of the hire of an harlot, and they shall return to the hire of an harlot.

1 word occurrence in this verse

The 1611 reading

1611 witness · Micah 1:7 · retained source text

And all the grauen images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burnt with the fire, and all the idoles therof will I lay desolate: for she gathered it of the hire of an harlot, and they shall returne to the hire of an harlot.

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Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins.

1 word occurrence in this verse

The 1611 reading

1611 witness · Micah 6:13 · retained source text

Therefore also will I make thee sicke in smiting thee, in making thee desolate, because of thy sinnes.

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Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.

1 word occurrence in this verse

The 1611 reading & marginal notes

1611 witness · Micah 7:13 · retained source text

Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruite of their doings.

1611 marginal noteOr, after that it hath beene.

Complete reference index — all 132 verses

Genesis 47:19 Exodus 23:29 Leviticus 26:22 Leviticus 26:33 Leviticus 26:34 Leviticus 26:35 Leviticus 26:43 2 Samuel 13:20 2 Chronicles 36:21 Job 3:14 Job 15:28 Job 15:34 Job 16:7 Job 30:3 Job 38:27 Psalms 25:16 Psalms 34:21 Psalms 34:22 Psalms 40:15 Psalms 69:25 Psalms 109:10 Psalms 143:4 Isaiah 1:7 Isaiah 3:26 Isaiah 5:9 Isaiah 6:11 Isaiah 7:19 Isaiah 13:9 Isaiah 13:22 Isaiah 15:6 Isaiah 24:6 Isaiah 27:10 Isaiah 49:8 Isaiah 49:19 Isaiah 49:21 Isaiah 54:1 Isaiah 54:3 Isaiah 59:10 Isaiah 62:4 Jeremiah 2:12 Jeremiah 4:7 Jeremiah 4:27 Jeremiah 6:8 Jeremiah 7:34 Jeremiah 9:11 Jeremiah 10:22 Jeremiah 10:25 Jeremiah 12:10 Jeremiah 12:11 Jeremiah 18:16 Jeremiah 19:8 Jeremiah 25:38 Jeremiah 26:9 Jeremiah 32:43 Jeremiah 33:10 Jeremiah 33:12 Jeremiah 44:6 Jeremiah 46:19 Jeremiah 48:9 Jeremiah 48:34 Jeremiah 49:2 Jeremiah 49:20 Jeremiah 50:3 Jeremiah 50:13 Jeremiah 50:45 Jeremiah 51:26 Jeremiah 51:62 Lamentations 1:4 Lamentations 1:13 Lamentations 1:16 Lamentations 3:11 Lamentations 4:5 Lamentations 5:18 Ezekiel 6:4 Ezekiel 6:6 Ezekiel 6:14 Ezekiel 12:19 Ezekiel 12:20 Ezekiel 14:15 Ezekiel 14:16 Ezekiel 15:8 Ezekiel 19:7 Ezekiel 20:26 Ezekiel 25:3 Ezekiel 25:13 Ezekiel 26:19 Ezekiel 26:20 Ezekiel 29:9 Ezekiel 29:10 Ezekiel 29:12 Ezekiel 30:7 Ezekiel 30:14 Ezekiel 32:15 Ezekiel 33:28 Ezekiel 33:29 Ezekiel 35:3 Ezekiel 35:4 Ezekiel 35:7 Ezekiel 35:12 Ezekiel 35:14 Ezekiel 35:15 Ezekiel 36:3 Ezekiel 36:4 Ezekiel 36:34 Ezekiel 36:35 Ezekiel 36:36 Ezekiel 38:12 Daniel 9:17 Daniel 9:27 Daniel 11:31 Daniel 12:11 Hosea 5:9 Hosea 13:16 Joel 1:17 Joel 1:18 Joel 2:3 Joel 2:20 Joel 3:19 Amos 7:9 Micah 1:7 Micah 6:13 Micah 7:13 Zephaniah 3:6 Zechariah 7:14 Malachi 1:4 Matthew 23:38 Luke 13:35 Acts 1:20 Galatians 4:27 1 Timothy 5:5 Revelation 17:16 Revelation 18:19

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Definition evidence

1 · KJV context and cross-references

Genesis 47:19 Job 30:3 Psalm 25:16 Isaiah 6:11 Jeremiah 9:11 Ezekiel 12:20 Job 15:28 Psalms 25:16 Ezekiel 36:35 Daniel 11:31 1 Timothy 5:5 Psalms 69:25 Isaiah 59:10 Jeremiah 44:6 Ezekiel 6:14 Ezekiel 33:29 Hosea 13:16 Revelation 18:19

Historical English dictionary sources

Historical definitions

Cawdrey 1604

Open source edition ↗

Left alone, or forsaken.

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