KJV dictionary & concordance
Sense 1: A fence, thicket, wall, or protective enclosure. Sense 2: Figuratively, a barrier or defense. As a verb, to enclose or obstruct.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Job 1:10
Complete exact-word concordance
Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.
Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on euery side? thou hast blessed the worke of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.
1611 marginal noteOr, cattell.
The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.
The way of the slouthfull man is as an hedge of thornes: but the way of the righteous is made plaine.
1611 marginal noteHebr. is raised vp as a causey.
He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
He that diggeth a pit, shall fall into it; and who so breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
1611 marginal notePsal.7.16. prou.26.27
And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
And now goe to; I will tell you what I will doe to my Uineyard, I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten vp; and breake downe the wall thereof, and it shall be troden downe.
1611 marginal noteHeb. for a treading.
Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the Lord.
Yee haue not gone vp into the gaps, neither made vp the hedge for the house of Israel, to stand in the battell in the day of the LORD.
1611 marginal noteOr, breaches.
1611 marginal noteHeb. hedged the hedge.
And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.
And I sought for a man among them, that should make vp the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.
¶ Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
¶ Therefore behold, I will hedge vp thy way with thornes, and make a wall, that she shall not find her pathes.
1611 marginal noteHeb. wall a wall.
The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.
The best of them is as a brier: the most vpright is sharper then a thorne hedge: the day of thy watchmen, and thy visitation commeth; now shall be their perplexitie.
AND he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country.
¶ And hee began to speake vnto them by parables. A certaine man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the wine fat, and built a towre, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a farre countrey.
1611 marginal noteMat. 21.33
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Historical English dictionary sources
Properly, a thicket of thorn-bushes or other shrubs or small trees; but appropriately, such a thicket planted round a field to fence it, or in rows, to separate the parts of a garden.
