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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Kill

The Bible

Bible Usage:

Dictionaries:

  • Included in Eastons: No
  • Included in Hitchcocks: No
  • Included in Naves: No
  • Included in Smiths: No
  • Included in Websters: Yes
  • Included in Strongs: Yes
  • Included in Thayers: Yes
  • Included in BDB: Yes

Strongs Concordance:

Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Kill

KILL, verb transitive

1. To deprive of life, animal or vegetable, in any manner or by any means. To kill an animal or a plant, is to put an end to the vital functions, either by destroying or essentially injuring the organs necessary to life, or by causing them to cease from action. An animal may be killed by the sword or by poison, by disease or by suffocation. A strong solution of salt will kill plants.

2. To butcher; to slaughter for food; as, to kill an ox.

3. To quell; to appease; to calm; to still; as, in seamen's language, a shower of rain kills the wind.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Killas

KIL'LAS, noun An argillaceous stone of a pale gray or greenish gray, of a lamellar or coarsely granular texture, found in Cornwall, England.


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Killdee

KILL'DEE, noun A small bird in America, so called from its voice or note; a species of plover.


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Killed

KILL'ED, participle passive Deprived of life; quelled; calmed.


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Killer

KILL'ER, noun One who deprives of life; he or that which kills.


Naves Topical Index
Killing

See Homicide
Homicide


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Killing

KILL'ING, participle present tense Depriving of life; quelling.


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Killinite

KIL'LINITE, noun A mineral, a variety of spodumene, found at Killeney, in Ireland.


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Killow

KIL'LOW, noun An earth of a blackish or deep blue color.