KJV dictionary & concordance
That which a person owes to another; that which a person is bound, by any natural, moral or legal obligation, to pay, do or perform.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Exodus 21:10
Complete exact-word concordance
If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
If he take him another wife, her food, her rayment, and her duety of mariage shall he not diminish.
¶ If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband’s brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband’s brother unto her.
¶ If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and haue no child, the wife of the dead shall not marrie without, vnto a stranger: her husbands brother shall go in vnto her, and take her to him to wife, and performe the duetie of an husbands brother vnto her.
1611 marginal noteOr, next kinseman.
1611 marginal noteMatt. 22.24. mar. 12.19. luk. 20.28.
And if the man like not to take his brother’s wife, then let his brother’s wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband’s brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband’s brother.
And if the man like not to take his brothers wife, then let his brothers wife go vp to the gate, vnto the Elders, and say, My husbands brother refuseth to raise vp vnto his brother a name in Israel: he will not performe the dutie of my husbands brother.
1611 marginal noteOr, next kinsemans wife.
1611 marginal noteRuth 3.9.
¶ And he appointed, according to the order of David his father, the courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their charges, to praise and minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required: the porters also by their courses at every gate: for so had David the man of God commanded.
¶ And he appointed, according to the order of Dauid his father, the courses of the Priests to their seruice, and the Leuites to their charges, to praise and minister before the Priests, as the duety of euery day required: the porters also by their courses, at euery gate: for so had Dauid the man of God commanded.
1611 marginal noteHeb. so was the commandement of Dauid the man of God.
1611 marginal note1.Chron. 24.1.
1611 marginal note1.Chron. 9.17.
They kept also the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the custom, as the duty of every day required;
They kept also the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, and offred the dayly burnt offrings, by number, according to the custome, as the duetie of euery day required:
1611 marginal noteHebr. the matter of the day in his day.
1611 marginal noteNum. 29.12.
1611 marginal noteExod. 23.16.
¶ Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
¶ Let vs heare the conclusion of the whole matter: Feare God, and keepe his commandements, for this is the whole duetie of man.
1611 marginal noteOr, the end of the matter, euen all that hath bene heard, is.
So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.
So likewise ye, when ye shal haue done all those things which are commanded you, say, Wee are vnprofitable seruants: Wee haue done that which was our duety to doe.
It hath pleased them verily; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister unto them in carnal things.
It hath pleased them verely, and their detters they are. For if the Gentiles haue bene made partakers of their spirituall things, their duetie is also to minister vnto them in carnall things.
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That which a person owes to another; that which a person is bound, by any natural, moral or legal obligation, to pay, do or perform.
