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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 73:9
They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Psalms 73:9 · retained source text

They set their mouth against the heauens; and their tongue walketh through the earth.

Psalms 74:4
Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Psalms 74:4 · retained source text

Thine enemies roare in the midst of thy congregations: they set vp their ensignes for signes.

Psalms 74:17
Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Psalms 74:17 · retained source text

Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: Thou hast made Summer and Winter.

1611 marginal noteHeb. made them.

Psalms 78:7
That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Psalms 78:7 · retained source text

That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God: but keepe his Commandements,

Psalms 78:8
And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Psalms 78:8 · retained source text

And might not bee as their fathers, a stubborne and rebellious generation, a generation that set not their heart aright: and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.

1611 marginal noteHebr. that prepared not their heart.

Psalms 85:13
Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in the way of his steps.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Psalms 85:13 · retained source text

Righteousnes shall go before him: and shall set vs in the way of his steps.

Psalms 86:14
O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Psalms 86:14 · retained source text

O God, the proud are risen against mee, and the assemblies of violent men haue sought after my soule: and haue not set thee before them.

1611 marginal noteHebr. terrible.

Psalms 89:25
I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Psalms 89:25 · retained source text

I will set his hand also in the sea: and his right hand in the riuers.

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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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