Numbers 23:8
How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the LORD hath not defied?
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Defied
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1 Chronicles 20:7
But when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea David's brother slew him.
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חָרַף
châraph · khaw-raf'
5 times translated as this KJV form41 total Strong's occurrences
to pull off, i.e. (by implication) to expose (as by stripping); specifically, to betroth (as if a surrender); figuratively, to carp at, i.e. defame; to spend the winter
Strong's KJV usage: betroth, blaspheme, defy, jeopard, rail, reproach, upbraid.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Samuel 17:36Strong's last: 1 Chronicles 20:7
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zâʻam · zaw-am'
1 times translated as this KJV form12 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to foam at the mouth, i.e. to be enraged
Strong's KJV usage: abhor, abominable, (be) angry, defy, (have) indignation.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Numbers 23:8Strong's last: Numbers 23:8
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And when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea the brother of David slew him.
H2778
And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines that were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were gone away:
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defy
DEFY, verb transitive
1. To dare; to provoke to combat or strife, by appealing to the courage of another; to invite one to contest; to challenge; as, Goliath defied the armies of Israel.
2. To dare; to brave; to offer to hazard a conflict by manifesting a contempt of opposition, attack or hostile force; as, to defy the arguments of an opponent; to defy the power of the magistrate.
Were we to abolish the common law, it would rise triumphant above its own ruins, deriding and defying its impotent enemies.
3. To challenge to say or do any thing.
DEFY, noun A challenge.
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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