KJV dictionary & concordance
Sense 1: Delights, enjoyments, or gratifications. Sense 2: Sensual or self-indulgent desires.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Job 36:11
Complete exact-word concordance
If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
If they obey and serue him, they shall spend their dayes in prosperitie, and their yeeres in pleasures.
1611 marginal noteIob 21.13.
Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Thou wilt shewe me the path of life: in thy presence is fulnesse of ioy, at thy right hand there are pleasures for euermore.
They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.
They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatnesse of thy house: and thou shalt make them drinke of the riuer of thy pleasures.
1611 marginal noteHeb. watered.
Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:
Therefore heare now this, thou that art giuen to pleasures, that dwellest carelesly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else besides mee, I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the losse of children.
And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.
And that which fell among thornes, are they, which when they haue heard, goe forth, and are choked with cares and riches, and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruite to perfection.
Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
Traitours, heady, high minded, louers of pleasures more then louers of God,
For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
For we our selues also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceiued, seruing diuers lusts and pleasures, liuing in malice and enuy, hatefull, and hating one another.
Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
Chusing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, then to enioy the pleasures of sinne for a season:
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