KJV dictionary & concordance
Sense 1: Employment, purpose, or customary practice. Sense 2: As a verb, to employ or be accustomed.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Leviticus 7:24
Complete exact-word concordance
Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; for thou shalt not be cured.
Goe vp into Gilead, and take balme, O virgine, the daughter of Egypt: in vaine shalt thou vse many medicines: for thou shalt not be cured.
1611 marginal noteHebr. no cure shalbe vnto thee.
Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord God; I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel; but say unto them, The days are at hand, and the effect of every vision.
Tell them therefore, Thus sayth the LORD God; I will make this prouerbe to cease, and they shall no more vse it as a prouerbe in Israel: but say vnto them, The dayes are at hand, and the effect of euery vision.
¶ Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.
¶ Behold, euery one that vseth prouerbs, shall vse this prouerbe against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.
What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge?
What meane ye that yee vse this prouerbe concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers haue eaten sowre grapes, and the childrens teeth are set on edge?
1611 marginal noteIee.31 29.
As I live, saith the Lord God, ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel.
As I liue, saith the LORD God, yee shall not haue occasion any more to vse this prouerbe in Israel.
For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver.
For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two wayes, to vse diuination: he made his arrowes bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liuer.
1611 marginal noteHeb. mother of the way.
1611 marginal noteOr, kniues.
1611 marginal noteHeb. Teraphim.
But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
But I say vnto you, Loue your enemies, blesse them that curse you, doe good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully vse you, and persecute you:
1611 marginal noteLuke 6.27.
1611 marginal noteLuke 23.34. acts 7.60.
But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
But when yee pray, vse not vaine repetitions, as the heathen doe. For they thinke that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
1611 marginal noteEcclus. 7.16.
Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you.
Blesse them that curse you, & pray for them which despitefully vse you.
And when there was an assault made both of the Gentiles, and also of the Jews with their rulers, to use them despitefully, and to stone them,
And when there was an assault made both of the Gentiles, and also of the Iewes, with their rulers, to vse them despitefully, and to stone them,
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