KJV dictionary & concordance
1. To depart, cease from, abandon, forsake, release, permit, entrust, bequeath, cause or allow to remain, omit, exclude, or not take. 2. As a noun, permission or liberty to act, including permission to depart.
Definition sources
Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Genesis 2:24
Complete exact-word concordance
¶ Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.
¶ Yea I hated all my labour which I had taken vnder the Sunne: because I should leaue it vnto the man that shalbe after mee.
1611 marginal noteHebr. laboured.
For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.
For there is a man whose labour is in wisedome and in knowledge, and in equitie: yet to a man that hath not laboured therein, shall hee leaue it for his portion; This also is vanitie, and a great euill.
1611 marginal noteHebr. giue.
If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for yielding pacifieth great offences.
If the spirit of the ruler rise vp against thee, leaue not thy place; for yeelding pacifieth great offences.
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Historical English dictionary sources
To cease; to desist.
