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 of the children of Benjamin, the kindred of Saul, three thousand: for hitherto the greatest part of them had kept the ward of the house of Saul.
And of the children of Beniamin the kinred of Saul three thousand: for hitherto the greatest part of them had kept the ward of the house of Saul.
1611 marginal noteHeb. brethren.
1611 marginal noteHeb. a multitude of them.
¶ And they cast lots, ward against ward, as well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholar.
¶ And they cast lots ward against ward, as well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholler.
To Shuppim and Hosah the lot came forth westward, with the gate Shallecheth, by the causeway of the going up, ward against ward.
To Shuppim and Hosa, the lot came foorth Westward with the gate Shallecheth, by the causey of the going vp, ward against ward.
1611 marginal noteSee 1.King 10.4. 2.chr. 9.4,11.
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Historical English dictionary sources
guard, prison.
in the phrases to us-ward.
