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 his concubine played the whore against him, and went away from him unto her father’s house to Beth-lehem-judah, and was there four whole months.
And his concubine played the whore against him, and went away from him vnto her fathers house to Bethlehem Iudah, and was there foure whole moneths.
1611 marginal noteOr, a yeere and foure moneths. Heb. dayes, foure moneths.
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Historical English dictionary sources
Acted; performed; put in motion.
