KJV dictionary & concordance
Watchful, alert, and attentive to possible danger or duty.
Definition sources
First occurrence: 1 Timothy 3:2
Complete exact-word concordance
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
A Bishop then must be blamelesse, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behauiour, giuen to hospitalitie, apt to teach;
1611 marginal noteOr, modest.
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
Be sober, be vigilant: because your aduersary the deuill, as a roaring Lion walketh about, seeking whom he may deuoure.
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Historical English dictionary sources
Watchful.
