KJV dictionary & concordance

gourd

Meaning of “gourd”

A plant and its fruit called a gourd.

Definition sources

KJV context and cross-referencesWebster 1828

5 occurrences4 verses1 bookKJV PCE

Some verses contain the word more than once.

First occurrence: Jonah 4:6

Complete exact-word concordance

Every verse containing “gourd”

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Jonah 4:6

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And the Lord God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.

2 word occurrences in this verse

The 1611 reading & marginal notes

1611 witness · Jonah 4:6 · retained source text

And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come vp ouer Ionah, that it might be a shadow ouer his head, to deliuer him from his griefe. So Ionah was exceeding glad of the gourd.

1611 marginal noteOr, palmecrist. Heb. Kikaion.

1611 marginal noteHeb. reioyced with great ioy.

Jonah 4:7

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But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.

1 word occurrence in this verse

The 1611 reading

1611 witness · Jonah 4:7 · retained source text

But God prepared a worme when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.

Jonah 4:9

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And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death.

1 word occurrence in this verse

The 1611 reading & marginal notes

1611 witness · Jonah 4:9 · retained source text

And God said to Ionah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? and he said, I doe well to be angry, euen vnto death.

1611 marginal noteOr, art thou greatly angry?

1611 marginal noteOr, I am greatly angry.

Jonah 4:10

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Then said the Lord, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night:

1 word occurrence in this verse

The 1611 reading & marginal notes

1611 witness · Jonah 4:10 · retained source text

Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pitie on the gourde, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow, which came vp in a night, and perished in a night:

1611 marginal noteOr, spared.

1611 marginal noteHeb. was the sonne of the night.

Source order

Definition evidence

1 · KJV context and cross-references

Jonah 4:6 Jonah 4:7 Jonah 4:9 Jonah 4:10

Historical English dictionary sources

Historical definitions

Webster 1828

Open source edition ↗

A plant and its fruit called a gourd.

volume 1, leaf 853, column 1 (entry starts at OCR line 54)