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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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Psalms 19:4
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,
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Psalms 19:4 · retained source text

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.

Psalms 20:5
We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners: the Lord fulfil all thy petitions.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Psalms 20:5 · retained source text

We will reioyce in thy saluation, and in the Name of our God we will set vp our banners: the LORD fulfill all thy petitions.

Psalms 27:5
For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Psalms 27:5 · retained source text

For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pauilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me, hee shall set me vp vpon a rocke.

Psalms 31:8
And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.
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1611 witness · Psalms 31:8 · retained source text

And hast not shut me vp into the hand of the enemie: thou hast set my feete in a large roome.

Psalms 40:2
He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Psalms 40:2 · retained source text

He brought me vp also out of an horrible pit, out of the mirie clay, and set my feete vpon a rock, and established my goings.

1611 marginal noteHeb. a pit of noise.

Psalms 50:21
These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Psalms 50:21 · retained source text

These things hast thou done, and I kept silence: thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thy selfe: but I will reproue thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.

Psalms 54:3
For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.
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1611 witness · Psalms 54:3 · retained source text

For strangers are risen vp against me, and oppressors seeke after my soule; they haue not set God before them. Selah.

Psalms 57:4
My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Psalms 57:4 · retained source text

My soule is among lyons, and I lie euen among them that are set on fire: euen the sonnes of men, whose teeth are speares and arrowes, and their tongue a sharpe sword.

Psalms 62:10
Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Psalms 62:10 · retained source text

Trust not in oppression, become not vaine in robberie: if riches increase, set not your heart vpon them.

Psalms 69:29
But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Psalms 69:29 · retained source text

But I am poore, and sorowfull: let thy saluation (O God) set me vp on high.

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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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