KJV dictionary & concordance

purtenance

Meaning of “purtenance”

The inward parts or entrails belonging to an animal.

Definition sources

KJV context and cross-referencesSkeat 1893Webster 1828

1 occurrence1 verse1 bookKJV PCE

First occurrence: Exodus 12:9

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KJV PCE

Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.

1 word occurrence in this verse

The 1611 reading

1611 witness · Exodus 12:9 · retained source text

Eate not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roste with fire: his head, with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.

Source order

1 · KJV context and cross-references

Historical English dictionary sources

Literally the belongings; hence, the intestines of an animal.

printed page 275, column 1

Appurtenance; but applied to the pluck of an animal.

volume 2, leaf 393, column 3 (noun entry)