KJV dictionary & concordance
A payment, compensation, or ransom offered to satisfy a legal claim or penalty.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Numbers 35:31
Complete exact-word concordance
Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death.
Moreouer, yee shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guiltie of death, but he shalbe surely put to death.
1611 marginal noteHeb. faulty to die.
And ye shall take no satisfaction for him that is fled to the city of his refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.
And yee shall take no satisfaction for him that is fled to the citie of his refuge, that hee should come againe to dwell in the land, vntil the death of the Priest.
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Historical English dictionary sources
A making amends for wrongs, or displeasures.
