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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Exhort

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: No

Strongs Concordance:

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Exhort

EXHORT', verb transitive egzhort'. [Latin exhortor; ex and hortor, to encourage, to embolden, to cheer, to advise. The primary sense seems to be to excite or to give strength, spirit or courage.]

1. To incite by words or advice; to animate or urge by arguments to a good deed or to any laudable conduct or course of action.

I exhort you to be of good cheer. Acts 27:22.

Young men also exhort to be sober minded.

EXHORT servants to be obedient to their masters. Titus 2:6.

2. To advise; to warn; to caution.

3. To incite or stimulate to exertion.

EXHORT', verb intransitive To deliver exhortation; to use words or arguments to incite to good deeds.

And with many other words did he testify and exhort Acts 2:40.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Exhortation

EXHORTA'TION, noun The act or practice of exhorting; the act of inciting to laudable deeds; incitement to that which is good or commendable.

1. The form of words intended to incite and encourage.

2. Advice; counsel.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Exhortative

EXHORT'ATIVE, adjective Containing exhortation.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Exhortatory

EXHORT'ATORY, adjective Tending to exhort; serving for exhortation.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Exhorted

EXHORT'ED, participle passive Incited by words to good deeds; animated to a laudable course of conduct; advised.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Exhorter

EXHORT'ER, noun One who exhorts or encourages.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Exhorting

EXHORT'ING, participle present tense Inciting to good deeds by words or arguments; encouraging; counseling.