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renowned

Meaning of “renowned”

Famous; celebrated for great and heroic achievements, for distinguished qualities or for grandeur; eminent.

Definition sources

KJV context and cross-referencesWebster 1828
4 occurrences4 verses3 booksKJV PCE

First occurrence: Numbers 1:16

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Every verse containing “renowned”

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Numbers 1:16
These were the renowned of the congregation, princes of the tribes of their fathers, heads of thousands in Israel.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Numbers 1:16 · retained source text

These were the renowned of the Congregation, Princes of the tribes of their fathers, heads of thousands in Israel.

Isaiah 14:20
Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Isaiah 14:20 · retained source text

Thou shalt not be ioyned with them in buriall, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slaine thy people: the seede of euill doers shall neuer be renowmed.

1611 marginal noteIob 18.19. psal.21.11. and 37.28. and 109 13.

Ezekiel 23:23
The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them riding upon horses.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Ezekiel 23:23 · retained source text

The Babylonians, and all the Caldeans, Pekod, and Shoah, and Koa, all the the Assyrians with them, all of them desireable young men, captaines and rulers, great lords and renowmed, all of them riding vpon horses.

Ezekiel 26:17
And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it!
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Ezekiel 26:17 · retained source text

And they shall take vp a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed that wast inhabited of Sea-faring men, the renowned citie, which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, which cause their terrour to be on all that haunt it?

1611 marginal noteHebr. of the seas.

1611 marginal noteReuel. 18.9.

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Historical English dictionary sources

Historical definitions

Famous; celebrated for great and heroic achievements, for distinguished qualities or for grandeur; eminent.

Webster 1828 facsimile, volume 2, leaf 458