KJV dictionary & concordance
Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of play. Sense 1: To engage in recreation, sport, contest, lively movement, or musical performance. Sense 2: To act or conduct oneself in a stated role or manner.
Definition sources
Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Genesis 38:24
Complete exact-word concordance
And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.
And Dauid and all Israel played before God with all their might, and with singing, and with harpes, and with psalteries, and with tymbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.
1611 marginal noteHeb. songs.
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Historical English dictionary sources
Acted; performed; put in motion.
