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
His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set.
His eyes are as the eyes of doues by the riuers of water, washed with milk, and fitly set.
1611 marginal noteHeb sitting in fulnesse, that is fitly placed, and set as a precious stone in the foile of a ring.
1611 marginal noteChap. 1.15. & 4.1.
His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.
His hands are as gold rings set with the Berill: His belly is as bright iuorie, ouerlayd with Saphires.
His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.
His legges are as pillars of marble, set vpon sockets of fine gold: his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the Cedars.
Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies.
Thy nauell is like a round goblet, which wanteth not licour: thy belly is like an heape of wheate, set about with lillies.
1611 marginal noteHeb. mixture.
¶ set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
¶ Set mee as a seale vpon thine heart, as a seale vpon thine arme: for loue is strong as death, iealousie is cruel as the graue: the coales thereof are coales of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
1611 marginal noteHeb. hard.
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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.
