KJV dictionary & concordance
The loose or hollowed part of a garment as it lies across the knees or front of the body, used or treated as a place to hold or receive something.
Definition sources
First occurrence: 2 Kings 4:39
Complete exact-word concordance
And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not.
And one went out into the field to gather herbes, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wilde gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not.
Also I shook my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labour, that performeth not this promise, even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the congregation said, Amen, and praised the Lord. And the people did according to this promise.
Also I shooke my lap, and said, So God shake out euery man from his house, and from his labour, that performeth not this promise, euen thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the Congregation said, Amen, and praised the LORD. And the people did according to this promise.
1611 marginal noteHeb. empty or void.
The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord.
The lot is cast into the lap: but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD.
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Historical English dictionary sources
The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely. The part of clothes that lies on the knees when a person sits down; hence, the knees in this position.
