1 Samuel 2:29
Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?
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Chiefest
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1 Timothy 6:21
Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen. <<The first to Timothy was written from Laodicea, which is the chiefest city of Phrygia Pacatiana.>>
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λίαν
lían · lee'-an
2 times translated as this KJV form14 total Strong's occurrences
much (adverbially)
Strong's KJV usage: :--exceeding, great(-ly), sore, very (+ chiefest).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Corinthians 11:5Strong's last: 2 Corinthians 12:11
Open full G3029 profile →πρῶτος
prōtos · pro'-tos
1 times translated as this KJV form101 total Strong's occurrences
foremost (in time, place, order or importance)
Strong's KJV usage: :--before, beginning, best, chief(-est), first (of all), former.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Mark 10:44Strong's last: Mark 10:44
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ʼabbîyr · ab-beer'
1 times translated as this KJV form17 total Strong's occurrences
Strong's KJV usage: angel, bull, chiefest, mighty (one), stout(-hearted), strong (one), valiant.
Strong's first: 1 Samuel 21:7Strong's last: 1 Samuel 21:7
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dâgal · daw-gal'
1 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
to flaunt, i.e. raise a flag; figuratively, to be conspicuous
Strong's KJV usage: (set up, with) banners, chiefest.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Song of Solomon 5:10Strong's last: Song of Solomon 5:10
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maʻăleh · mah-al-eh'
1 times translated as this KJV form18 total Strong's occurrences
an elevation, i.e. (concretely) acclivity or platform; abstractly (the relation or state) a rise or (figuratively) priority
Strong's KJV usage: ascent, before, chiefest, cliff, that goeth up, going up, hill, mounting up, stairs.
Strong's first: 2 Chronicles 32:33Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 32:33
Open full H4608 profile →רֹאשׁ
rôʼsh · roshe
1 times translated as this KJV form598 total Strong's occurrences
the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
Strong's KJV usage: band, beginning, captain, chapiter, chief(-est place, man, things), company, end, × every (man), excellent, first, forefront, (be-)head, height, (on) high(-est part, (priest)), × lead, × poor, principal, ruler, sum, top.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Samuel 9:22Strong's last: 1 Samuel 9:22
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rêʼshîyth · ray-sheeth'
1 times translated as this KJV form50 total Strong's occurrences
the first, in place, time, order or rank (specifically, a firstfruit)
Strong's KJV usage: beginning, chief(-est), first(-fruits, part, time), principal thing.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Samuel 2:29Strong's last: 1 Samuel 2:29
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H4608
And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the chiefest of the sepulchres of the sons of David: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honour at his death. And Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.
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chief
CHIEF, adjective
1. Highest in office or rank; principal; as a chief priest; the chief butler. Genesis 40:9.
Among the chief rulers, many believed on him. John 12:10.
2. Principal or most eminent, in any quality or action; most distinguished; having most influence; commanding most respect; taking the lead; most valuable; most important; a word of extensive use; as a country chief in arms.
The hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass. Ezra 9:2.
Agriculture is the chief employment of men.
3. First in affection; most dear and familiar.
A whisperer separateth chief friends. Proverbs 16:28.
CHIEF, noun
1. A commander; particularly a military commander; the person who heads an army; equivalent to the modern terms, commander or general in chief captain general, or generalissimo. 1 Chronicles 11:6.
2. The principal person of a tribe, family, or congregation, etc.
Numbers 3:24. Job 29:25. Math. 20.
3. In chief in English law, in capite. To hold land in chief is to hold it directly from the king by honorable personal services.
4. In heraldry, chief signifies the head or upper part of the escutcheon, from side to side, representing a mans head. In chief imports something borne in this part.
5. In Spenser, it seems to signify something like achievement, a mark of distinction; as, chaplets wrought with a chief
6. This word is often used, in the singular number, to express a plurality.
I took the chief of your tribes, wise men and known, and made them heads over you. Deuteronomy 1:15.
These were the chief of the officers, that were over Solomons work. 1 Kings 9:23.
In these phrases, chief may have been primarily an adjective, that is, chief men, chief persons.
7. The principal part; the most or largest part, of one thing or of many.
The people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed. 1 Samuel 15:21.
He smote the chief of their strength. Psalms 68:1.
The chief of the debt remains unpaid.
CHIEF, adverb Chiefly.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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