KJV dictionary & concordance
To stagger, sway, rock, or move unsteadily to and fro, as one overcome, drunken, or unable to stand firm.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Psalms 107:27
Complete exact-word concordance
They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits’ end.
They reele to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man; and are at their wits end.
1611 marginal noteHeb. all their wisedome is swallowed vp.
The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
The earth shall reele to and fro, like a drunkard, and shall be remooued like a cottage, and the transgression thereof shall be heauie vpon it, and it shall fall, and not rise againe.
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Historical English dictionary sources
To stagger; to incline or move first to one side and then to the other; to vacillate.
