KJV dictionary & concordance
To hear with submission and do what is commanded; to comply with authority or instruction.
Definition sources
Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Genesis 27:8
Complete exact-word concordance
The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother; the rauens of the valley shall picke it out, and the young Eagles shall eate it.
1611 marginal noteOr, the brooke.
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Historical English dictionary sources
To comply with the commands, orders or instructions of a superior, or with the requirements of law, moral, political or municipal; to do that which is commanded or required, or to forbear doing that which is prohibited. […] To submit to the direction or control of.
