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provide

Meaning of “provide”

To consider beforehand; to make provision or take thought for.

Definition sources

KJV context and cross-referencesSkeat 1893
11 occurrences11 verses10 booksKJV PCE

First occurrence: Genesis 22:8

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Genesis 22:8
And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Genesis 22:8 · retained source text

And Abraham said, My sonne, God will prouide himselfe a lambe for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.

Genesis 30:30
For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it is now increased unto a multitude; and the Lord hath blessed thee since my coming: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also?
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1611 witness · Genesis 30:30 · retained source text

For it was little which thou hadst before I came; and it is now increased vnto a multitude; and the LORD hath blessed thee since my comming: and now when shall I prouide for mine owne house also?

1611 marginal noteHebr. broken foorth.

1611 marginal noteHebr. at my foote.

Exodus 18:21
Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:
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1611 witness · Exodus 18:21 · retained source text

Moreouer thou shalt prouide out of all the people able men, such as feare God, men of trueth, hating couetousnesse, and place such ouer them, to bee rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tennes.

1 Samuel 16:17
And Saul said unto his servants, provide me now a man that can play well, and bring him to me.
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1611 witness · 1 Samuel 16:17 · retained source text

And Saul said vnto his seruants, Prouide mee now a man, that can play well, and bring him to me.

2 Chronicles 2:7
Send me now therefore a man cunning to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and that can skill to grave with the cunning men that are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father did provide.
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1611 witness · 2 Chronicles 2:7 · retained source text

Send me now therefore a man, cunning to worke in gold and in siluer, and in brasse, and in yron, and in purple and crimson, and blew, and that can skil to graue, with the cunning men that are with me in Iudah, and in Ierusalem, whome Dauid my father did prouide.

1611 marginal noteHeb. to graue grauings.

Psalms 78:20
Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people?
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1611 witness · Psalms 78:20 · retained source text

Behold, he smote the rocke, that the waters gushed out, & the streames ouerflowed; can he giue bread also? can he prouide flesh for his people?

1611 marginal noteExod. 17.6. num. 20.11.

Matthew 10:9
provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses,
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1611 witness · Matthew 10:9 · retained source text

Prouide neither gold, nor siluer, nor brasse in your purses:

1611 marginal noteOr, get.

1611 marginal noteMark. 6.8. luke 9.3. and 22.35.

Luke 12:33
Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.
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1611 witness · Luke 12:33 · retained source text

Sell that yee haue, and giue almes: prouide your selues bagges which waxe not old, a treasure in the heauens that faileth not, where no theefe approcheth, neither moth corrupteth.

1611 marginal noteMat. 6.20.

Acts 23:24
And provide them beasts, that they may set Paul on, and bring him safe unto Felix the governor.
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1611 witness · Acts 23:24 · retained source text

And prouide them beasts, that they may set Paul on, and bring him safe vnto Felix the gouernour.

Romans 12:17
Recompense to no man evil for evil. provide things honest in the sight of all men.
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1611 witness · Romans 12:17 · retained source text

Recompence to no man euill for euill. Prouide things honest in the sight of all men.

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To consider beforehand; to make provision or take thought for.

printed p. 274; PDF p. 294; Internet Archive leaf n293