KJV dictionary & concordance
Sense 1: To be left or still exist after others are gone, removed, consumed, or destroyed. Sense 2: To stay, abide, or continue in a place, state, condition, or relation.
Definition sources
Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Genesis 38:11
Complete exact-word concordance
As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
As yet shall hee remaine at Nob that day: he shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Ierusalem.
Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field.
Then iudgement shall dwell in the wildernesse, and righteousnesse remaine in the fruitfull field.
1611 marginal noteChap.29.17.
The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.
The carpenter stretcheth out his rule: he maketh it out with the line: he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compasse, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beautie of a man; that it may remaine in the house.
Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine’s flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;
Which remaine among the graues, and lodge in the monuments, which eate swines flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels:
1611 marginal noteOr, pieces.
For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed and your name remain.
For as the new heauens, and the new earth which I wil make, shall remaine before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remaine.
1611 marginal noteChap.65.17. 2.Pet.3.13. reuel. 21.1.
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Historical English dictionary sources
To continue; to rest or abide in a place for a time indefinite. To be left after others have withdrawn; to rest or abide in the same place when others remove, or are lost, destroyed or taken away. To be left after a part or others have passed. To continue unchanged, or in a particular state. Not to be lost; not to escape; not to be forgotten. To be left, out of a greater number or quantity. To be left as not included or comprised. To continue in the same state.
