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laid

Meaning of “laid”

Sense 1: Placed, set, put down, deposited, arranged, established, founded, imposed, applied, stored, buried, or overlaid. Sense 2: Reclined or brought to rest.

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KJV context and cross-referencesWebster 1828
279 occurrences271 verses48 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Genesis 9:23

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Psalms 3:5
I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the Lord sustained me.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Psalms 3:5 · retained source text

I layd me downe and slept; I awaked, for the LORD sustained me.

1611 marginal notePsal.4.9.

Psalms 21:5
His glory is great in thy salvation: honour and majesty hast thou laid upon him.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Psalms 21:5 · retained source text

His glory is great in thy saluation: honour and Maiestie hast thou layde vpon him.

Psalms 31:4
Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Psalms 31:4 · retained source text

Pull me out of the net, that they haue layd priuily for me: for thou art my strength.

Psalms 31:19
Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Psalms 31:19 · retained source text

O how great is thy goodnesse, which thou hast layd vp for them that feare thee: which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee, before the sonnes of men!

1611 marginal noteEsa.64.4. 1.Cor. 2.9.

Psalms 35:11
False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Psalms 35:11 · retained source text

False witnesses did rise vp they layd to my charge things that I knew not.

1611 marginal noteHeb. witnesses of wrong.

1611 marginal noteHeb. they asked me.

Psalms 49:14
Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Psalms 49:14 · retained source text

Like sheepe they are layd in the graue, death shall feede on them; and the vpright shall haue dominion ouer them in the morning, and their beauty shall consume in the graue, from their dwelling.

1611 marginal noteOr, strength

1611 marginal noteOr, the graue being an habitation to euery one of them.

Psalms 62:9
Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Psalms 62:9 · retained source text

Surely men of low degree are vanitie, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the ballance, they are altogether lighter then vanitie.

1611 marginal noteOr, alike.

Psalms 79:1
O GOD, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Psalms 79:1 · retained source text

¶ O God, the heathen are come into thine, inheritance, thy holy temple haue they defiled: they haue layd Ierusalem on heapes.

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