KJV dictionary & concordance
Not known, recognized, identified, understood, disclosed, or familiar to the persons concerned.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Acts 17:23
Complete exact-word concordance
For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE unknown GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
For as I passed by, and beheld your deuotions, I found an Altar with this inscription, TO THE VNKNOWEN GOD. Whom therefore yee ignorantly worship, him declare I vnto you.
1611 marginal noteOr, gods that you worship, 2.Thess. 2.4.
For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.
For he that speaketh in an vnknowen tongue, speaketh not vnto men, but vnto God: for no man vnderstandeth him: howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.
1611 marginal noteGr. heareth
He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church.
He that speaketh in an vnknowen tongue, edifieth himselfe: but hee that prophesieth, edifieth the Church.
Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret.
Wherefore let him that speaketh in an vnknowen tongue, pray that he may interprete.
For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.
For if I pray in an vnknowen tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my vnderstanding is vnfruitfull.
Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.
Yet in the Church I had rather speake fiue words with my vnderstanding, that by my voyce I might teach others also, then ten thousand words in an vnknowen tongue.
If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret.
If any man speake in an vnknowen tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course, and let one interprete.
As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;
As vnknowen, & yet wel knowen: as dying, and behold, we liue: as chastened, and not killed:
And was unknown by face unto the churches of Judæa which were in Christ:
And was vnknowen by face vnto the Churches of Iudea, which were in Christ.
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