KJV dictionary & concordance
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
Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Genesis 1:17
Complete exact-word concordance
To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.
To set vp on high those that be low; that those which mourne, may be exalted to safetie.
1611 marginal notePsa. 113.6. 1.sam. 2.7.
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
For the arrowes of the Almightie are within me, the poyson whereof drinketh vp my spirit: the terrors of God doe set themselues in aray against mee.
1611 marginal notePsal. 38.2.
What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?
What is man, that thou shouldest magnifie him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart vpon him?
1611 marginal notePsal. 8.4. and 144.3. heb. 2.6.
I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?
I haue sinned, what shall I doe vnto thee, O thou preseruer of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to my selfe?
If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?
If I speake of strength, loe, hee is strong: and if of iudgement, who shall set me a time to pleade?
O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
O that thou wouldest hide mee in the graue, that thou wouldest keepe me secret, vntill thy wrath bee past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me.
I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.
I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my necke, and shaken me to pieces, and set me vp for his marke.
He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
Hee hath fenced vp my way that I cannot passe; and hee hath set darkenesse in my pathes.
BUT now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
¶ But nowe they that are yonger then I, haue mee in derision, whose fathers I would haue disdained to haue set with the dogs of my flocke.
1611 marginal noteHeb. of fewer dayes then I.
They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
They marre my path, they set forward my calamitie, they haue no helper.
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Historical English dictionary sources
Placed; put; located; fixed; adjusted; composed; studded or adorned; reduced, as a dislocated or broken bone. Fixed in opinion; determined; firm; obstinate. Established; prescribed.
