KJV dictionary & concordance

should

Meaning of “should”

A verb expressing duty, propriety, expectation, intention, purpose, condition, appointed outcome, or a future event viewed from another time or statement.

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KJV context and cross-referencesWebster 1828

783 occurrences690 verses60 booksKJV PCE

Some verses contain the word more than once.

First occurrence: Genesis 2:18

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Jeremiah 5:17

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And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.

1 word occurrence in this verse

The 1611 reading & marginal notes

1611 witness · Jeremiah 5:17 · retained source text

And they shall eate vp thine haruest and thy bread, which thy sonnes and thy daughters should eate: they shall eate vp thy flockes and thine heards: they shall eate vp thy vines and thy figtrees: they shall impouerish thy fenced cities wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.

1611 marginal noteLeu.26.16. deut. 28.31.33.

Jeremiah 20:18

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Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

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1611 witness · Jeremiah 20:18 · retained source text

Wherefore came I forth out of the wombe to see labour and sorrow, that my daies should be consumed with shame?

1611 marginal noteIob.3.20.

Jeremiah 23:22

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But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.

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1611 witness · Jeremiah 23:22 · retained source text

But if they had stood in my counsell, and had caused my people to heare my wordes, then they should haue turned them from their euil way, and from the euill of their doings.

Jeremiah 25:29

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For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name, and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the Lord of hosts.

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1611 witness · Jeremiah 25:29 · retained source text

For loe, I begin to bring euill on the citie, which is called by my name, and should yee be vtterly vnpunished? ye shall not be vnpunished: for I will cal for a sword vpon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the LORD of hosts.

1611 marginal noteHeb. vpon which my Name is called.

1611 marginal note1.Pet.4.17.

Jeremiah 26:24

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Nevertheless the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, that they should not give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.

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1611 witness · Jeremiah 26:24 · retained source text

Neuerthelesse, the hand of Ahikam, the sonne of Shaphan, was with Ieremiah, that they should not giue him into the hand of the people, to put him to death.

Jeremiah 27:10

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For they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from your land; and that I should drive you out, and ye should perish.

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1611 witness · Jeremiah 27:10 · retained source text

For they prophecie a lie vnto you, to remooue you farre from your land, and that I should driue you out, and ye should perish.

Jeremiah 27:17

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Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city be laid waste?

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1611 witness · Jeremiah 27:17 · retained source text

Hearken not vnto them: serue the king of Babylon, and liue: wherefore should this citie be laid waste?

Jeremiah 29:26

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The Lord hath made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest, that ye should be officers in the house of the Lord, for every man that is mad, and maketh himself a prophet, that thou shouldest put him in prison, and in the stocks.

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1611 witness · Jeremiah 29:26 · retained source text

The LORD hath made thee Priest in the stead of Iehoiada the Priest, that ye should be Officers in the house of the LORD, for euery man that is madde, and maketh himselfe a Prophet, that thou shouldest put him in prison, and in the stockes:

1611 marginal note2.King.9.11. acts.26.24.

Jeremiah 32:31

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For this city hath been to me as a provocation of mine anger and of my fury from the day that they built it even unto this day; that I should remove it from before my face,

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1611 witness · Jeremiah 32:31 · retained source text

For this citie hath beene to me, as a prouocation of mine anger, and of my furie, from the day that they built it, euen vnto this day; that I should remooue it from before my face:

1611 marginal noteHeb. for my anger.

Jeremiah 32:35

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And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.

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1611 witness · Jeremiah 32:35 · retained source text

And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the sonne of Hinnom, to cause their sonnes and their daughters to passe through the fire vnto Molech, which I commanded them not, neither came it into my minde, that they should doe this abomination, to cause Iudah to sinne.

1611 marginal noteCha.7.31. and 19.6.

1611 marginal noteLeuit. 18.21.

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Joshua 22:29 Joshua 24:16 Judges 8:6 Judges 8:15 Judges 9:9 Judges 9:11 Judges 9:13 Judges 9:28 Judges 9:38 Judges 9:41 Judges 20:38 Judges 21:3 Judges 21:22 Ruth 1:12 1 Samuel 2:30 1 Samuel 8:7 1 Samuel 9:6 1 Samuel 10:22 1 Samuel 12:21 1 Samuel 12:23 1 Samuel 15:21 1 Samuel 15:29 1 Samuel 17:26 1 Samuel 18:18 1 Samuel 18:19 1 Samuel 19:1 1 Samuel 19:17 1 Samuel 20:2 1 Samuel 20:5 1 Samuel 22:13 1 Samuel 24:6 1 Samuel 26:11 1 Samuel 27:1 1 Samuel 27:5 1 Samuel 27:11 1 Samuel 29:4 2 Samuel 2:22 2 Samuel 12:23 2 Samuel 13:26 2 Samuel 15:20 2 Samuel 16:9 2 Samuel 16:19 2 Samuel 18:12 2 Samuel 18:13 2 Samuel 19:19 2 Samuel 19:22 2 Samuel 19:34 2 Samuel 19:35 2 Samuel 19:36 2 Samuel 19:43 2 Samuel 20:20 2 Samuel 21:5 2 Samuel 23:17 1 Kings 1:27 1 Kings 2:1 1 Kings 2:15 1 Kings 6:6 1 Kings 8:36 1 Kings 11:10 1 Kings 14:2 1 Kings 21:3 2 Kings 3:27 2 Kings 4:43 2 Kings 6:33 2 Kings 7:19 2 Kings 8:13 2 Kings 11:9 2 Kings 11:17 2 Kings 17:15 2 Kings 17:28 2 Kings 18:35 2 Kings 22:19 1 Chronicles 9:28 1 Chronicles 11:19 1 Chronicles 16:42 1 Chronicles 21:17 1 Chronicles 21:18 1 Chronicles 23:13 1 Chronicles 23:32 1 Chronicles 25:1 1 Chronicles 29:14 2 Chronicles 2:6 2 Chronicles 4:20 2 Chronicles 6:27 2 Chronicles 15:13 2 Chronicles 20:21 2 Chronicles 23:16 2 Chronicles 23:19 2 Chronicles 25:13 2 Chronicles 29:11 2 Chronicles 29:24 2 Chronicles 30:1 2 Chronicles 30:5 2 Chronicles 32:4 2 Chronicles 32:14 Ezra 2:63 Ezra 4:22 Ezra 7:23 Ezra 8:17 Ezra 9:14 Ezra 10:5 Ezra 10:7 Ezra 10:8 Nehemiah 2:3 Nehemiah 5:12 Nehemiah 6:3 Nehemiah 6:11 Nehemiah 6:13 Nehemiah 7:65 Nehemiah 8:14 Nehemiah 8:15 Nehemiah 9:12 Nehemiah 9:15 Nehemiah 9:19 Nehemiah 9:23 Nehemiah 10:37 Nehemiah 11:23 Nehemiah 13:1 Nehemiah 13:2 Nehemiah 13:19 Nehemiah 13:22 Esther 1:8 Esther 1:22 Esther 2:10 Esther 2:11 Esther 3:14 Esther 4:8 Esther 8:13 Esther 9:21 Esther 9:22 Esther 9:25 Esther 9:27 Esther 9:28 Job 3:12 Job 3:13 Job 6:10 Job 6:11 Job 6:14 Job 8:7 Job 9:2 Job 9:32 Job 10:19 Job 11:2 Job 11:3 Job 13:5 Job 13:9 Job 15:2 Job 15:3 Job 15:14 Job 16:5 Job 19:28 Job 21:4 Job 21:15 Job 23:7 Job 27:5 Job 31:1 Job 31:28 Job 32:7 Job 32:13 Job 34:6 Job 34:9 Job 34:10 Job 34:23 Job 34:33 Job 36:16 Job 41:11 Psalms 27:3 Psalms 30:3 Psalms 38:16 Psalms 49:5 Psalms 49:9 Psalms 69:22 Psalms 73:15 Psalms 78:5 Psalms 78:6 Psalms 79:10 Psalms 81:14 Psalms 81:15 Psalms 81:16 Psalms 95:11 Psalms 104:5 Psalms 106:23 Psalms 115:2 Psalms 119:92 Psalms 139:18 Psalms 143:8 Proverbs 8:29 Proverbs 22:6 Proverbs 22:27 Ecclesiastes 2:3 Ecclesiastes 2:18 Ecclesiastes 2:24 Ecclesiastes 3:13 Ecclesiastes 3:14 Ecclesiastes 3:22 Ecclesiastes 5:6 Ecclesiastes 7:14 Song of Solomon 1:7 Song of Solomon 8:1 Song of Solomon 8:3 Isaiah 1:5 Isaiah 1:9 Isaiah 5:2 Isaiah 5:4 Isaiah 8:11 Isaiah 8:19 Isaiah 10:15 Isaiah 36:20 Isaiah 41:7 Isaiah 48:11 Isaiah 48:19 Isaiah 49:15 Isaiah 50:4 Isaiah 51:14 Isaiah 53:2 Isaiah 54:9 Isaiah 57:6 Isaiah 57:16 Isaiah 63:13 Jeremiah 5:17 Jeremiah 20:18 Jeremiah 23:22 Jeremiah 25:29 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Webster 1828

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The preterit of shall, but now used as an auxiliary verb, either in the past time or conditional present. 'He should have paid the debt at the time the note became due.' Should here denotes past time. 'I should ride to town this day if the weather would permit.' Here should expresses present or future time conditionally. […] When should in this person is uttered without emphasis, it declares simply that an event would take place, on some condition or under circumstances.

volume 2, leaf 588, column 2 (entry starts at OCR line 51)