KJV dictionary & concordance
Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of pipe, meaning to play upon a pipe or other wind instrument.
Definition sources
First occurrence: 1 Kings 1:40
Complete exact-word concordance
And all the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth rent with the sound of them.
And all the people came vp after him, and the people piped with pipes, and reioyced with great ioy, so that the earth rent with the sound of them.
1611 marginal noteOr, flutes.
And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented.
And saying, we haue piped vnto you, and ye haue not danced: wee haue mourned vnto you, and ye haue not lamented.
They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.
They are like vnto children sitting in the market place, & calling one to another, and saying, We haue piped vnto you, and ye haue not danced: wee haue mourned to you, and yee haue not wept.
And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?
And euen things without life giuing sound, whether pipe or harpe, except they giue a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be knowen what is piped or harped?
1611 marginal noteOr, tunes.
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