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set

Meaning of “set”

1. To put or place a person or thing in a position, relation, or condition; when passive, to be so placed, fixed, or adorned. 2. To establish, fix, appoint, assign, prescribe, or determine. 3. To arrange, prepare, present, display, or put in order or array. 4. To direct, turn, or firmly apply the face, heart, eyes, mind, affection, or action toward something. 5. To start, advance, send out, proceed on a course or work, or make an attack, as in set forward, set forth, or set upon where those meanings apply. 6. To value or esteem; or, in set at nought or set light by, to despise. 7. Of the sun, to go down.

Definition sources

KJV context and cross-referencesWebster 1828
695 occurrences664 verses51 booksKJV PCE

Some verses contain the word more than once.

First occurrence: Genesis 1:17

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Deuteronomy 1:8
Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Deuteronomy 1:8 · retained source text

Behold, I haue set the land before you: Goe in, and possesse the land, which the LORD sware vnto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Iacob, to giue vnto them, and to their seed after them.

1611 marginal noteHebr. giuen.

1611 marginal noteGene. 15.18. and 17.7,8.

Deuteronomy 1:21
Behold, the Lord thy God hath set the land before thee: go up and possess it, as the Lord God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not, neither be discouraged.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Deuteronomy 1:21 · retained source text

Behold, the LORD thy God hath set the land before thee: Goe vp, and possesse it, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath said vnto thee: Feare not, neither be discouraged.

Deuteronomy 4:8
And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Deuteronomy 4:8 · retained source text

And what nation is there so great, that hath Statutes and Iudgements so righteous, as all this Law which I set before you this day?

Deuteronomy 7:7
The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Deuteronomy 7:7 · retained source text

The LORD did not set his loue vpon you, nor choose you, because yee were moe in number then any people: (for ye were the fewest of all people,)

Deuteronomy 11:32
And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments which I set before you this day.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Deuteronomy 11:32 · retained source text

And yee shall obserue to doe all the Statutes, and Iudgements, which I set before you this day.

1611 marginal noteChap. 5.32.

Deuteronomy 14:24
And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it; or if the place be too far from thee, which the Lord thy God shall choose to set his name there, when the Lord thy God hath blessed thee:
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Deuteronomy 14:24 · retained source text

And if the way bee too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carie it, or if the place be too farre from thee, which the LORD thy God shall chuse to set his name there, when the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:

Deuteronomy 16:22
Neither shalt thou set thee up any image; which the Lord thy God hateth.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Deuteronomy 16:22 · retained source text

Neither shalt thou set thee vp any image, which the LORD thy God hateth.

1611 marginal noteOr, statue, or pillar.

1611 marginal noteLeuit. 26.1.

Deuteronomy 17:14
¶ When thou art come unto the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will set a king over me, like as all the nations that are about me;
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Deuteronomy 17:14 · retained source text

¶ When thou art come vnto the land which the LORD thy God giueth thee, and shalt possesse it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will set a King ouer mee, like as all the nations that are about me:

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Historical definitions

Placed; put; located; fixed; adjusted; composed; studded or adorned; reduced, as a dislocated or broken bone. Fixed in opinion; determined; firm; obstinate. Established; prescribed.

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