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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Have

The Bible

Bible Usage:

  • hath used 2,263 times.
  • have used 3,905 times.
  • having used 193 times.

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
Have

HAVE, verb transitive hav. preterit tense and participle passive had. Present, I have thou hast, he has; we, ye, they, have [Latin habeo.]

1. To possess; to hold in possession or power.

How many loaves have ye? Matthew 15:6.

He that gathered much had nothing over. Exodus 16:3.

I have no Levite to my priest. Judges 17:13.

To have and to hold, terms in a deed of conveyance.

2. To possess, as something that is connected with, or belongs to one.

HAVE ye a father? have ye another brother? Genesis 43:7, and 44.

--Sheep that have no shepherd. l Kings 22.

3. To marry; to take for a wife or husband.

In the resurrection, whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all had her. Matthew 22:4.

4. To hold; to regard. Thus, to have in honor, is to hold in esteem; to esteem; to honor.

To have in derision or contempt, to hold in derision or contempt; to deride; to despise.

5. To maintain; to hold in opinion.

Sometimes they will have them to be the natural heat; sometimes they will have them to be the qualities of the tangible parts.

6. To be urged by necessity or obligation; to be under necessity, or impelled by duty.

I have to visit twenty patients every day.

We have to strive against temptations.

We have to encounter strong prejudices.

The nation has to pay the interest of an immense debt.

7. To seize and hold; to catch. The hound has him. [The original, but now a vulgar use of the word.]

8. To contain. The work has many beauties and many faults.

9. To gain; to procure; to receive; to obtain; to purchase.

I had this cloth very cheap.

He has a guinea a month.

He has high wages for his services.

Had rather, denotes wish or preference.

I had rather be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than dwell in the tents of wickedness. Psalms 84:1.

Is not this phrase a corruption of would rather?

To have after, to pursue. [Not much used, nor elegant.]

To have away, to remove; to take away.

To have at, to encounter; to assail; as, to have at him; to have at you. [Legitimate, but vulgar.]

To enter into competition with; to make trial with.

Dryden uses in a like sense, have with you; but these uses are inelegant.

To have in, to contain.

To have on, to wear; to carry; as raiment or weapons.

He saw a man who had not on a wedding garment. Matthew 22:4.

To have out, to cause to depart. 2 Samuel 13:9.

To have a care, to take care; to be on the guard, or to guard.

To have pleasure, to enjoy.

To have pain, to suffer.

To have sorrow, to be grieved or afflicted.

With would and should.

He would have he desires to have or he requires.

He should have he ought to have

But the various uses of have in such phrases, and its uses as an auxiliary verb, are fully explained in grammars. As an auxiliary, it assists in forming the perfect tense, as I have formed, thou hast formed, he hath or has formed, we have formed, and the prior-past tense, as I had seen, thou hadst seen, he had seen.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Haveless

HAVELESS, adjective hav'les. Having little or nothing. [Not in use.]


Easton's Bible Dictionary
Haven

A harbour (Psalms 107:30; Acts 27:12). The most famous on the coast of Palestine was that of Tyre (Ezekiel 27:3). That of Crete, called "Fair Havens," is mentioned Acts 27:8.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Haven

HA'VEN,noun ha'vn.

1. A harbor; a port; a bay, recess or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river which affords good anchorage and a safe station for ships; any place in which ships can be sheltered by the land from the force of tempests and a violent sea.

2. A shelter; an asylum; a place of safety.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Havener

HA'VENER, noun The overseer of a port; a harbor-master. [Not used.]


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Haver

HAV'ER, noun One who has or possesses; a possessor; a holder. [Little used.]

HAV'ER, noun [Latin avena.] Oats; a word of local use in the north of England; as haverbread, oaten bread.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Haversack

HAV'ERSACK, noun A soldier's knapsack.


The Bible

Bible Usage:

  • hath used 2,263 times.
  • have used 3,905 times.
  • having used 193 times.

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

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