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visitation

Meaning of “visitation”

Sense 1: The act or appointed time of visiting or dealing. Sense 2: Affliction, calamity, or judgment. Sense 3: Favour, mercy, or divine goodness.

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KJV context and cross-referencesWebster 1828
15 occurrences15 verses8 booksKJV PCE

First occurrence: Numbers 16:29

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1 Peter 2:12
Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
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The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · 1 Peter 2:12 · retained source text

Hauing your conuersation honest among the Gentiles, that whereas they speake against you as euill doers, they may by your good works which they shall behold, glorifie God in the day of visitation.

1611 marginal noteOr, wherin.

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The act of visiting. ... In Scripture ... afflictions, calamities and judgments are called visitations. ... Communication of divine love; exhibition of divine goodness and mercy.

volume 2, leaf 891, column 3 (noun entry, senses 1, 4-5)