KJV dictionary & concordance
1. Guard, watch, duty, an assigned division, or the place or body keeping watch. 2. Joined to a direction or object, toward or in relation to it. 3. Custody or confinement.
Definition sources
Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Genesis 40:3
Complete exact-word concordance
And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.
And he put them in ward in the house of the captaine of the guard, into the prison, the place where Ioseph was bound.
And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he served them: and they continued a season in ward.
And the captaine of the guard charged Ioseph with them, and he serued them, and they continued a season in warde.
And he asked Pharaoh’s officers that were with him in the ward of his lord’s house, saying, Wherefore look ye so sadly to day?
And he asked Pharaohs officers that were with him in the warde of his lords house, saying, wherefore looke ye so sadly to day?
1611 marginal noteHeb. are your faces euill?
Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me in ward in the captain of the guard’s house, both me and the chief baker:
Pharaoh was wroth with his seruants, and put mee in warde, in the captaine of the guards house, both mee, and the chiefe Baker.
And he put them all together into ward three days.
And he put them all together into warde, three dayes.
1611 marginal noteHebr. gathered.
Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God shall be with thee: Be thou for the people to God-ward, that thou mayest bring the causes unto God:
Hearken now vnto my voyce, I will giue thee counsell, and God shall be with thee: Be thou for the people to Godward, that thou mayest bring the causes vnto God:
And they put him in ward, that the mind of the Lord might be shewed them.
And they put him in ward, that the minde of the LORD might bee shewed them.
1611 marginal noteHeb. to expound vnto them according to the mouth of the LORD.
1611 marginal noteNumb. 15.34.
And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him.
And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him.
1611 marginal noteLeuit. 24.12.
¶ And Jonathan spake good of David unto Saul his father, and said unto him, Let not the king sin against his servant, against David; because he hath not sinned against thee, and because his works have been to thee-ward very good:
¶ And Ionathan spake good of Dauid vnto Saul his father, and said vnto him, Let not the King sinne against his seruant, against Dauid: because hee hath not sinned against thee, and because his workes haue bene to thee ward very good.
¶ And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and fed them, but went not in unto them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.
¶ And Dauid came to his house at Ierusalem, and the king tooke the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and fed them, but went not in vnto them: so they were shut vp vnto the day of their death, liuing in widowhood.
1611 marginal noteHebr. a house of ward.
1611 marginal noteHebr. bound.
1611 marginal noteHebr. in widowhood of life.
1611 marginal noteChap. 16.22.
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Historical English dictionary sources
guard, prison.
in the phrases to us-ward.
