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 proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.
The proude haue hid a snare for me and cords, they haue spread a net by the way side: they haue set grinnes for me. Selah.
Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
Let my prayer bee set foorth before thee as incense: and the lifting vp of my hands as the Euening sacrifice.
1611 marginal noteHebr. directed.
set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
Set a watch (O LORD) before my mouth: keepe the doore of my lips.
But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
But ye haue set at nought all my counsell, & would none of my reproofe:
I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
I was set vp from euerlasting, from the beginning, or euer the earth was.
When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
When hee prepared the heauens, I was there: when he set a compasse vpon the face of the depth.
1611 marginal noteOr, a circle.
Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
Remoue not the ancient land marke, which thy fathers haue set.
1611 marginal noteOr, bound.
1611 marginal noteChap. 13.10. deut. 19 14. & 27.7.
Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
Wilt thou set thine eyes vpon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselues wings, they fly away as an Eagle toward heauen.
1611 marginal noteHeb. wilt thou cause thine eyes to fly vpon?
He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
He hath made euery thing beautifull in his time: also hee hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can finde out the worke that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.
In the day of prosperitie be ioyfull, but in the day of aduersitie consider: God also hath set the one ouer against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.
1611 marginal noteHeb. made.
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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.
