KJV dictionary & concordance
A substance or means used to heal, relieve, or restore health.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Proverbs 17:22
Complete exact-word concordance
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
A merrie heart doth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
1611 marginal noteOr, to a medicine.
1611 marginal noteChap. 15.13. and 12.25.
And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.
And by the riuer vpon the banke thereof on this side, and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leafe shal not fade, neither shal the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit, according to his moneths, because their waters they issued out of the Sanctuarie, and the fruite thereof shall be for meate, and the leafe thereof for medicine.
1611 marginal noteHeb. shall come vp.
1611 marginal noteOr, principall.
1611 marginal noteOr, for bruises and sores.
1611 marginal noteReu.22.2.
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1 · KJV context and cross-references
Historical English dictionary sources
Remedie, or cure.
