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
For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the foole, and the brutish person perish, and leaue their wealth to others.
I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine oppressors.
¶ I Haue done Iudgement and iustice: leaue mee not to mine oppressours.
But mine eyes are unto thee, O God the Lord: in thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute.
But mine eyes are vnto thee, O God the LORD: in thee is my trust, leaue not my soule destitute.
1611 marginal noteHeb. make not my soule bare.
Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
Who leaue the pathes of vprightnesse, to walke in the wayes of darkenesse:
The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.
The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therfore leaue off contention, before it be medled with.
¶ 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.
And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?
And what wil ye doe in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from farre? To whom wil ye flee for helpe? And where will yee leaue your glory?
And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen: for the Lord God shall slay thee, and call his servants by another name:
And yee shall leaue your name for a curse vnto my chosen: for the LORD God shall slay thee, and call his seruants by another name:
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Historical English dictionary sources
To cease; to desist.
