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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.

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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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Acts 16:34
And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house.
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1611 witness · Acts 16:34 · retained source text

And when he had brought them into his house, hee set meat before them, and reioyced, beleeuing in God with all his house.

Acts 17:5
¶ But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.
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1611 witness · Acts 17:5 · retained source text

¶ But the Iewes which beleeued not, mooued with enuie, tooke vnto them certaine lewd fellowes of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the citie on an vprore, and assaulted the house of Iason, and sought to bring them out to the people.

Acts 18:10
For I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to hurt thee: for I have much people in this city.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Acts 18:10 · retained source text

For I am with thee, and no man shal set on thee, to hurt thee: for I haue much people in this city.

Acts 19:27
So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth.
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1611 witness · Acts 19:27 · retained source text

So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought: but also that the Temple of the great goddesse Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia, and the world worshippeth.

Acts 21:2
And finding a ship sailing over unto Phenicia, we went aboard, and set forth.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Acts 21:2 · retained source text

And finding a ship sailing ouer vnto Phenicea, wee went abroad, and set foorth.

Acts 22:30
On the morrow, because he would have known the certainty wherefore he was accused of the Jews, he loosed him from his bands, and commanded the chief priests and all their council to appear, and brought Paul down, and set him before them.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Acts 22:30 · retained source text

On the morrow, because he would haue knowen the certaintie wherefore he was accused of the Iewes, he loosed him from his bands, and commanded the chiefe Priests and all their Councill to appeare, and brought Paul downe, and set him before them.

Acts 23:24
And provide them beasts, that they may set Paul on, and bring him safe unto Felix the governor.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Acts 23:24 · retained source text

And prouide them beasts, that they may set Paul on, and bring him safe vnto Felix the gouernour.

Acts 26:32
Then said Agrippa unto Festus, This man might have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed unto Cæsar.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Acts 26:32 · retained source text

Then said Agrippa vnto Festus, This man might haue bene set at libertie, if he had not appealed vnto Cesar.

Romans 3:25
Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
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The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Romans 3:25 · retained source text

Whom God hath set forth to bee a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousnesse for the remission of sinnes, that are past, through the forbearance of God.

1611 marginal noteOr, foreordeined.

1611 marginal noteOr, passing ouer.

Romans 14:10
But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
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1611 witness · Romans 14:10 · retained source text

But why doest thou iudge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? wee shall all stand before the Iudgement seat of Christ.

1611 marginal note2.Cor. 5.10.

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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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