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
The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying,
The Kings of the earth set themselues, and the rulers take counsell together, against the LORD, and against his Anoynted, saying,
Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
Yet haue I set my King vpon my holy hill of Sion.
1611 marginal noteHebr. anointed.
1611 marginal noteHebr. vpon Sion, the hill of my Holinesse.
I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set themselves against me round about.
I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that haue set themselues against me round about.
1611 marginal notePsal.27.3.
But know that the Lord hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the Lord will hear when I call unto him.
But know that the LORD hath set apart him that is godly, for himselfe: the LORD will heare when I call vnto him.
O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.
¶ O LORD our LORD, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory aboue the heauens.
He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.
He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doeth he murder the innocent: his eyes are priuily set against the poore.
1611 marginal noteHeb. hide themselues.
For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the Lord; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
For the oppression of the poore, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise (saith the LORD,) I will set him in safetie from him that puffeth at him.
1611 marginal noteOr, would ensnare him.
I have set the Lord always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
I haue set the LORD alwaies before me: because hee is at my right hand, I shall not be moued.
1611 marginal noteActes 2.25.
They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;
They haue now compassed vs in our steps: they haue set their eyes bowing downe to the earth:
Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,
Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world: In them hath he set a tabernacle for the Sunne.
1611 marginal noteHebr. without their voyce heard.
1611 marginal noteRom. 10.18.
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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.
