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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

True

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
True

TRUE, adjective

1. Conformable to fact; being in accordance with the actual state of things; as a true relation or narration; a true history. A declaration is true when it states the facts. In this sense, true is opposed to false.

2. Genuine; pure; real; not counterfeit, adulterated or false; as true balsam; the true bark; true love of country; a true christian.

--The true light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. John 1:9.

3. Faithful; steady in adhering to friends, to promises, to a prince or to the state; loyal; not false, fickle or perfidious; as a true friend; a true lover; a man true to his king, true to his country, true to his word; a husband true to his wife; a wife true to her husband; a servant true to his master; an officer true to his charge.

4. Free from falsehood; as a true witness.

5. Honest; not fraudulent; as good men and true

If king Edward be as true and just--

6. Exact; right to precision; conformable to a rule or pattern; as a true copy; a true likeness of the original.

7. Straight; right; as a true line; the true course of a ship.

8. Not false or pretended; real; as, Christ was the true Messiah.

9. Rightful; as, George IV is the true king of England.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Trueborn

TRUEBORN, adjective [true and born.] Of genuine birth; having a right by birth to any title; as a true born Englishman.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Truebred

TRUEBRED, adjective [true and bred.] Of a genuine or right breed; as a truebred beast.

1. Being of genuine breeding or education; as a truebred gentleman.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Truehearted

TRUEHE'ARTED, adjective [true and heart.] Being of a faithful heart; honest; sincere; not faithless or deceitful; as a truehearted friend.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Trueheartedness

TRUEHE'ARTEDNESS, noun Fidelity; loyalty; sincerity.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Truelove

TRUELOVE, noun [true and love.] One really beloved.

1. A plant, the herb Paris.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Truelove-knot

TRUELOVE-KNOT, noun A knot composed of lines united with many involutions; the emblem of interwoven affection or engagements.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Trueness

TRUENESS, noun Faithfulness; sincerity.

1. Reality; genuineness.

2. Exactness; as the trueness of a line.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Truepenny

TRUEPENNY, noun [true and penny.] A familiar phrase for an honest fellow.