Subscribe
Bible Usage:
- subscribe used twice.
- subscribed used twice.
- First Reference: Isaiah 44:5
- Last Reference: Jeremiah 32:44
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: No
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H3789 Used 2 times
SUBSCRI'BE, verb transitive [Latin subscribo; sub and scribo, to write.]
1. To sign with one's own hand; to give consent to something written, or to bind one's self by writing one's name beneath; as, parties subscribe a covenant or contract; a man subscribes a bond or articles of agreement.
2. To attest by writing one's name beneath; as, officers subscribe their official acts; and secretaries and clerks subscribe copies of records.
3. To promise to give by writing one's name; as, each man subscribed ten dollars or ten shillings.
4. To submit. [Not in use.]
SUBSCRI'BE, verb intransitive To promise to give a certain sum by setting one's name to a paper. The paper was offered and many subscribed.
1. To assent; as, I could not subscribe to his opinion.
SUBSCRI'BED, participle passive Having a name or names written underneath. The petition is subscribed by two thousand persons.
1. Promised by writing the name and sum.
A large sum is subscribed
SUBSCRI'BER, noun One who subscribes; one who contributes to an undertaking by subscribing.
1. One who enters his name for a paper, book, map and the like.