KJV dictionary & concordance
Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of sever, meaning to divide, separate, distinguish, set apart, or make a difference between persons, peoples, animals, places, or conditions.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Leviticus 20:26
Complete exact-word concordance
And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the Lord am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine.
And ye shal be holy vnto me: for I the LORD am holy, & haue seuered you from other people, that ye should be mine.
1611 marginal noteChap. 19.2. and 20.7. 1.pet. 1.18.
¶ Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan toward the sunrising;
¶ Then Moses seuered three cities on this side Iordan, toward the Sunne rising:
Now Heber the Kenite, which was of the children of Hobab the father in law of Moses, had severed himself from the Kenites, and pitched his tent unto the plain of Zaanaim, which is by Kedesh.
Now Heber the Kenite, which was of the children of Hobab the father in law of Moses, had seuered himselfe from the Kenites, and pitched his tent vnto the plaine of Zaanaim, which is by Kedesh.
1611 marginal noteNumb. 10.29.
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