KJV dictionary & concordance
Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of employ, meaning to use for a purpose.
Definition sources
First occurrence: 1 Chronicles 9:33
Complete exact-word concordance
And these are the singers, chief of the fathers of the Levites, who remaining in the chambers were free: for they were employed in that work day and night.
And these are the singers, chiefe of the fathers of the Leuites, who remayning in the chambers, were free: for they were imployed in that worke, day and night.
1611 marginal noteHebr. vpon them.
¶ Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahaziah the son of Tikvah were employed about this matter: and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them.
¶ Onely Ionathan the sonne of Asahel, and Iahaziah the sonne of Tikuah, were employed about this matter: and Meshullam, and Shabbethai the Leuite, helped them.
1611 marginal noteHeb. stood.
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Historical English dictionary sources
Occupied; fixed or engaged; applied in business; used in agency.
