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provide

Meaning of “provide”

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

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

First occurrence: Genesis 22:8

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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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The 1611 reading & marginal notes
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.

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

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