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
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.
If thou canst answer me, set thy words in order before me, stand up.
If thou canst, answere me, set thy wordes in order before me, stand vp.
If he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath;
If he set his heart vpon man, if he gather vnto himselfe his spirit and his breath;
1611 marginal noteHebr. vpon him.
1611 marginal notePsal. 104.19.
He shall break in pieces mighty men without number, and set others in their stead.
He shall breake in pieces mighty men without number, and set others in their stead.
1611 marginal noteHeb. without searching out.
Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.
Euen so would he haue remooued thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitnesse, and that which should be set on thy table, should be full of fatnesse.
1611 marginal noteHeb. the rest of thy table.
And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,
And brake vp for it my decreed place, and set barres and doores,
1611 marginal noteOr, established my decree vpon it.
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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.
