KJV dictionary & concordance
Sense 1: To intend, purpose, signify, or have in view; lowly, common, or of little worldly distinction, with ‘no mean’ indicating the opposite; middle or intervening, as in the mean time. Sense 2: A means, instrument, method, or agency by which something is done.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Genesis 21:29
Complete exact-word concordance
That this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones?
That this may be a signe among you, that when your children aske their fathers in time to come, saying, What meane you by these stones?
1611 marginal noteHeb. to morrow.
And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones?
And he spake vnto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shal aske their fathers in time to come, saying, What meane these stones?
1611 marginal noteHebr. to morrow.
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To have thought or ideas; or to have meaning.
