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
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Therefore shall a man leaue his father and his mother, and shall cleaue vnto his wife: and they shalbe one flesh.
1611 marginal noteMatt. 19.5. mar. 10.7. 1.corin. 6.16. ephe. 5.31.
And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.
And behold, I am with thee, and will keepe thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee againe into this land: for I will not leaue thee, vntill I haue done that which I haue spoken to thee of.
And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee some of the folk that are with me. And he said, What needeth it? let me find grace in the sight of my lord.
And Esau said, Let me now leaue with thee some of the folke that are with me: And hee said, What needeth it? let me finde grace in the sight of my LORD.
1611 marginal noteHeb. Set, or place.
1611 marginal noteHeb. wherfore is this?
And the man, the lord of the country, said unto us, Hereby shall I know that ye are true men; leave one of your brethren here with me, and take food for the famine of your households, and be gone:
And the man the LORD of the countrey said vnto vs, Hereby shall I know that ye are true men: leaue one of your brethren here with me, and take foode for the famine of your housholds, and be gone.
And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.
And we said vnto my LORD, The lad cannot leaue his father: for if hee should leaue his father, his father would die.
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Historical English dictionary sources
To cease; to desist.
