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write

Meaning of “write”

Sense 1: To form letters or words, inscribe, record, compose, copy, or communicate in writing. Sense 2: By figure, to impress and establish something upon the heart or mind.

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First occurrence: Exodus 17:14

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Deuteronomy 24:1
WHEN a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
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The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Deuteronomy 24:1 · retained source text

¶ When a man hath taken a wife and married her, and it come to passe that shee find no fauour in his eyes, because hee hath found some vncleannesse in her: then let him write her a bill of diuorcement, and giue it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

1611 marginal noteHebr. matter of nakednesse.

1611 marginal noteHebr. cutting off.

1611 marginal noteMatt. 5.31. and 19.7. mar.10.4.

Deuteronomy 24:3
And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife;
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1611 witness · Deuteronomy 24:3 · retained source text

And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of diuorcement, and giueth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house: Or if the latter husband die, which tooke her to be his wife,

Deuteronomy 27:3
And thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law, when thou art passed over, that thou mayest go in unto the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, a land that floweth with milk and honey; as the Lord God of thy fathers hath promised thee.
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1611 witness · Deuteronomy 27:3 · retained source text

And thou shalt write vpon them all the words of this Law when thou art passed ouer, that thou mayest goe in vnto the land which the LORD thy God giueth thee, a land that floweth with milke and hony, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee.

Deuteronomy 31:19
Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.
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1611 witness · Deuteronomy 31:19 · retained source text

Now therefore, write ye this song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouthes, that this song may be a witnesse for mee, against the children of Israel.

2 Chronicles 26:22
¶ Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, did Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, write.
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1611 witness · 2 Chronicles 26:22 · retained source text

¶ Now the rest of the actes of Uzziah first and last, did Isaiah the prophet the sonne of Amoz write.

Ezra 5:10
We asked their names also, to certify thee, that we might write the names of the men that were the chief of them.
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1611 witness · Ezra 5:10 · retained source text

We asked their names also, to certifie thee, that we might write the names of the men that were the chiefe of them.

Nehemiah 9:38
And because of all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, Levites, and priests, seal unto it.
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1611 witness · Nehemiah 9:38 · retained source text

And because of all this, wee make a sure couenant, and write it, and our Princes, Leuites, and Priestes, seale vnto it.

1611 marginal noteHeb. are at the sealing, or sealed.

Esther 8:8
Write ye also for the Jews, as it liketh you, in the king’s name, and seal it with the king’s ring: for the writing which is written in the king’s name, and sealed with the king’s ring, may no man reverse.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Esther 8:8 · retained source text

Write ye also for the Iewes, as it liketh you, in the Kings name, and seale it with the Kings ring: for the writing which is written in the Kings name, and sealed with the Kings ring, may no man reuerse.

1611 marginal noteSee Chap. 1.19.

Proverbs 3:3
Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
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1611 witness · Proverbs 3:3 · retained source text

Let not mercy and trueth forsake thee: bind them about thy necke, write them vpon the table of thine heart.

1611 marginal noteExod. 13.9 deut. 6.8.

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