KJV dictionary & concordance
To pardon an offence, remit a debt, or release from the penalty or resentment connected with it.
Definition sources
Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Genesis 50:17
Complete exact-word concordance
For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.
For thou LORD art good, and ready to forgiue: and plenteous in mercie vnto all them that call vpon thee.
1611 marginal noteIoel 2.13.
And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not.
And the meane man boweth downe, and the great man humbleth himselfe; therefore forgiue them not.
Yet, Lord, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thus with them in the time of thine anger.
Yet LORD thou knowest all their counsell against me to slay mee: forgiue not their iniquitie, neither blot out their sinne from thy sight, but let them bee ouerthrowen before thee, deale thus with them in the time of thine anger.
1611 marginal noteHebr. for death.
And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
And they shall teach no more euery man his neighbour, and euery man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know mee, from the least of them vnto the greatest of them, saith the LORD; for I will forgiue their iniquitie, and I will remember their sinne no more.
1611 marginal noteIsa.54.17 ioh.6.45.
1611 marginal noteChap. 33.8. mic.7.18 acts 10.43.
It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.
It may be that the house of Iudah will heare all the euil which I purpose to doe vnto them; that they may returne euery man from his euill way, that I may forgiue their iniquitie, and their sinne.
O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not, for thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people are called by thy name.
O LORD heare, O LORD forgiue, O LORD hearken and doe: deferre not for thine owne sake, O my God: for thy citie, & thy people are called by thy Name.
And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord God, forgive, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
And it came to passe, that when they had made an ende of eating the grasse of the land, then I said; O LORD God, forgiue, I beseech thee, by whom shal Iacob arise? for he is small.
1611 marginal noteOr, who of (or for) Iacob shall stand?
And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
And forgiue vs our debts, as we forgiue our debters.
For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:
For, if yee forgiue men their trespasses, your heauenly father will also forgiue you.
1611 marginal noteMarke 11.25.
But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
But, if yee forgiue not men their trespasses, neither will your father forgiue your trespasses.
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Historical English dictionary sources
To pardon; to remit, as an offense or debt; to overlook an offense, and treat the offender as not guilty. […] It is to be noted that pardon, like forgive may be followed by the name or person, and by the offense; but remit can be followed by the offense only.
