Genesis 19:4
But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:
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But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:
Read in context →Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
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shâkab · shaw-kab'
to lie down (for rest, sexual connection, decease or any other purpose)
Strong's KJV usage: × at all, cast down, (lover-)lay (self) (down), (make to) lie (down, down to sleep, still with), lodge, ravish, take rest, sleep, stay.
Strong's first: Genesis 19:33Strong's last: Jonah 1:5
Open full H7901 profile →sûwm · soom
to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
Strong's KJV usage: × any wise, appoint, bring, call (a name), care, cast in, change, charge, commit, consider, convey, determine, disguise, dispose, do, get, give, heap up, hold, impute, lay (down, up), leave, look, make (out), mark, name, × on, ordain, order, paint, place, preserve, purpose, put (on), regard, rehearse, reward, (cause to) set (on, up), shew, stedfastly, take, × tell, tread down, (over-)turn, × wholly, work.
Strong's first: Exodus 5:8Strong's last: Malachi 2:2
Open full H7760 profile →nâthan · naw-than'
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
Strong's KJV usage: add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign, × avenge, × be (healed), bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, cause, charge, come, commit, consider, count, cry, deliver (up), direct, distribute, do, × doubtless, × without fail, fasten, frame, × get, give (forth, over, up), grant, hang (up), × have, × indeed, lay (unto charge, up), (give) leave, lend, let (out), lie, lift up, make, O that, occupy, offer, ordain, pay, perform, place, pour, print, × pull, put (forth), recompense, render, requite, restore, send (out), set (forth), shew, shoot forth (up), sing, slander, strike, (sub-) mit, suffer, × surely, × take, thrust, trade, turn, utter, weep, willingly, withdraw, would (to) God, yield.
Strong's first: Exodus 7:4Strong's last: Jonah 1:14
Open full H5414 profile →çâmak · saw-mak'
to prop (literally or figuratively); reflexively, to lean upon or take hold of (in a favorable or unfavorable sense)
Strong's KJV usage: bear up, establish, (up-) hold, lay, lean, lie hard, put, rest self, set self, stand fast, stay (self), sustain.
Strong's first: Leviticus 3:2Strong's last: Numbers 27:18
Open full H5564 profile →títhēmi · tith'-ay-mee
to place (in the widest application, literally and figuratively; properly, in a passive or horizontal posture, and thus different from G2476, which properly denotes an upright and active position, while G2749 is properly reflexive and utterly prostrate)
Strong's KJV usage: :--+ advise, appoint, bow, commit, conceive, give, X kneel down, lay (aside, down, up), make, ordain, purpose, put, set (forth), settle, sink down.
Strong's first: Luke 5:18Strong's last: 1 Peter 2:6
Open full G5087 profile →shâlach · shaw-lakh'
to send away, for, or out (in a great variety of applications)
Strong's KJV usage: × any wise, appoint, bring (on the way), cast (away, out), conduct, × earnestly, forsake, give (up), grow long, lay, leave, let depart (down, go, loose), push away, put (away, forth, in, out), reach forth, send (away, forth, out), set, shoot (forth, out), sow, spread, stretch forth (out).
Strong's first: Genesis 22:12Strong's last: Esther 9:2
Open full H7971 profile →epitíthēmi · ep-ee-tith'-ay-mee
to impose (in a friendly or hostile sense)
Strong's KJV usage: :--add unto, lade, lay upon, put (up) on, set on (up), + surname, X wound.
Strong's first: Matthew 9:18Strong's last: 1 Timothy 5:22
Open full G2007 profile →katákeimai · kat-ak'-i-mahee
to lie down, i.e. (by implication) be sick; specially, to recline at a meal
Strong's KJV usage: :--keep, lie, sit at meat (down).
Strong's first: Mark 1:30Strong's last: Acts 28:8
Open full G2621 profile →yânach · yaw-nakh'
to deposit; by implication, to allow to stay
Strong's KJV usage: bestow, cast down, lay (down, up), leave (off), let alone (remain), pacify, place, put, set (down), suffer, withdraw, withhold. (The Hiphil forms with the dagesh are here referred to, in accordance with the older grammarians; but if any distinction of the kind is to be made, these should rather be referred to 5117, and the others here.)
Strong's first: Judges 6:20Strong's last: Ezekiel 44:19
Open full H3240 profile →shîyth · sheeth
to place (in a very wide application)
Strong's KJV usage: apply, appoint, array, bring, consider, lay (up), let alone, × look, make, mark, put (on), regard, set, shew, be stayed, × take.
Strong's first: Exodus 21:22Strong's last: Isaiah 5:6
Open full H7896 profile →epibállō · ep-ee-bal'-lo
to throw upon (literal or figurative, transitive or reflexive; usually with more or less force); specially (with G1438 implied) to reflect; impersonally, to belong to
Strong's KJV usage: :--beat into, cast (up-)on, fall, lay (on), put (unto), stretch forth, think on.
Strong's first: Luke 20:19Strong's last: Luke 21:12
Open full G1911 profile →thēsaurízō · thay-sow-rid'-zo
to amass or reserve (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--lay up (treasure), (keep) in store, (heap) treasure (together, up).
Strong's first: Matthew 6:19Strong's last: Matthew 6:20
Open full G2343 profile →klínō · klee'-no
to slant or slope, i.e. incline or recline (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--bow (down), be far spent, lay, turn to flight, wear away.
Strong's first: Matthew 8:20Strong's last: Luke 9:58
Open full G2827 profile →nâphal · naw-fal'
to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
Strong's KJV usage: be accepted, cast (down, self, (lots), out), cease, die, divide (by lot), (let) fail, (cause to, let, make, ready to) fall (away, down, -en, -ing), fell(-ing), fugitive, have (inheritance), inferior, be judged (by mistake for 6419), lay (along), (cause to) lie down, light (down), be (× hast) lost, lying, overthrow, overwhelm, perish, present(-ed, -ing), (make to) rot, slay, smite out, × surely, throw down.
Strong's first: Judges 4:22Strong's last: Judges 7:12
Open full H5307 profile →shᵉkâbâh · shek-aw-baw'
a lying down (of dew, or for the sexual act)
Strong's KJV usage: × carnally, copulation, × lay, seed.
Strong's first: Exodus 16:13Strong's last: Exodus 16:14
Open full H7902 profile →edaphízō · ed-af-id'-zo
to raze
Strong's KJV usage: :--lay even with the ground.
Strong's first: Luke 19:44Strong's last: Luke 19:44
Open full G1474 profile →epíkeimai · ep-ik'-i-mahee
to rest upon (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--impose, be instant, (be) laid (there-, up-)on, (when) lay (on), lie (on), press upon.
Strong's first: John 11:38Strong's last: John 11:38
Open full G1945 profile →hístēmi · his'-tay-mee
to stand (transitively or intransitively), used in various applications (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--abide, appoint, bring, continue, covenant, establish, hold up, lay, present, set (up), stanch, stand (by, forth, still, up).
Strong's first: Acts 7:60Strong's last: Acts 7:60
Open full G2476 profile →keîmai · ki'-mahee
to lie outstretched (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--be (appointed, laid up, made, set), lay, lie.
Strong's first: Matthew 28:6Strong's last: Matthew 28:6
Open full G2749 profile →kratéō · krat-eh'-o
to use strength, i.e. seize or retain (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--hold (by, fast), keep, lay hand (hold) on, obtain, retain, take (by).
Strong's first: Matthew 12:11Strong's last: Matthew 12:11
Open full G2902 profile →yâçad · yaw-sad'
to set (literally or figuratively); intensively, to found; reflexively, to sit down together, i.e. settle, consult
Strong's KJV usage: appoint, take counsel, establish, (lay the, lay for a) found(-ation), instruct, lay, ordain, set, × sure.
Strong's first: Isaiah 28:16Strong's last: Isaiah 28:16
Open full H3245 profile →yatsaʻ · yaw-tsah'
to strew as a surface
Strong's KJV usage: make (one's) bed, × lie, spread.
Strong's first: Esther 4:3Strong's last: Esther 4:3
Open full H3331 profile →mâlaṭ · maw-lat'
properly, to be smooth, i.e. (by implication) to escape (as if by slipperiness); causatively, to release or rescue; specifically, to bring forth young, emit sparks
Strong's KJV usage: deliver (self), escape, lay, leap out, let alone, let go, preserve, save, × speedily, × surely.
Strong's first: Isaiah 34:15Strong's last: Isaiah 34:15
Open full H4422 profile →mishlôwach · mish-lo'-akh
a sending out, i.e. (abstractly) presentation (favorable), or seizure (unfavorable); also (concretely) a place of dismissal, or a business to be discharged
Strong's KJV usage: to lay, to put, sending (forth), to set.
Strong's first: Isaiah 11:14Strong's last: Isaiah 11:14
Open full H4916 profile →nûwach · noo'-akh
to rest, i.e. settle down; used in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, intransitive, transitive and causative (to dwell, stay, let fall, place, let alone, withdraw, give comfort, etc.)
Strong's KJV usage: cease, be confederate, lay, let down, (be) quiet, remain, (cause to, be at, give, have, make to) rest, set down. Compare 3241.
Strong's first: Isaiah 30:32Strong's last: Isaiah 30:32
Open full H5117 profile →ʻârak · aw-rak'
to set in a row, i.e. arrange, put in order (in a very wide variety of applications)
Strong's KJV usage: put (set) (the battle, self) in array, compare, direct, equal, esteem, estimate, expert (in war), furnish, handle, join (battle), ordain, (lay, put, reckon up, set) (in) order, prepare, tax, value.
Strong's first: Leviticus 1:8Strong's last: Leviticus 1:8
Open full H6186 profile →qârab · kaw-rab'
to approach (causatively, bring near) for whatever purpose
Strong's KJV usage: (cause to) approach, (cause to) bring (forth, near), (cause to) come (near, nigh), (cause to) draw near (nigh), go (near), be at hand, join, be near, offer, present, produce, make ready, stand, take.
Strong's first: Isaiah 5:8Strong's last: Isaiah 5:8
Open full H7126 profile →râbats · raw-bats'
to crouch (on all four legs folded, like a recumbent animal); by implication, to recline, repose, brood, lurk, imbed
Strong's KJV usage: crouch (down), fall down, make a fold, lay, (cause to, make to) lie (down), make to rest, sit.
Strong's first: Isaiah 54:11Strong's last: Isaiah 54:11
Open full H7257 profile →rêbets · reh'-bets
a couch or place of repose
Strong's KJV usage: where each lay, lie down in, resting place.
Strong's first: Isaiah 35:7Strong's last: Isaiah 35:7
Open full H7258 profile →shîybâh · shee-baw'
residence
Strong's KJV usage: while...lay.
Strong's first: 2 Samuel 19:32Strong's last: 2 Samuel 19:32
Open full H7871 profile →shâkan · shaw-kan'
to reside or permanently stay (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: abide, continue, (cause to, make to) dwell(-er), have habitation, inhabit, lay, place, (cause to) remain, rest, set (up).
Strong's first: Psalms 7:5Strong's last: Psalms 7:5
Open full H7931 profile →Strong's data is a concordance/lexical reference layer. Scripture context controls interpretation. Lexical source data is shown separately from future TWBC editorial teaching.
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Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it the city, even Jerusalem:
And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about.
Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.
Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity.
And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to another, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege.
And I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.
And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.
Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her.
And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger and according to my fury; and they shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord GOD.
And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them.
And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water.
Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay away their robes, and put off their broidered garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit upon the ground, and shall tremble at every moment, and be astonished at thee.
Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.
And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height.
For I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that none shall pass through.
I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you.
And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by.
And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
Then said he unto me, The north chambers and the south chambers, which are before the separate place, they be holy chambers, where the priests that approach unto the LORD shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place is holy.
When the priests enter therein, then shall they not go out of the holy place into the utter court, but there they shall lay their garments wherein they minister; for they are holy; and shall put on other garments, and shall approach to those things which are for the people.
And when they go forth into the utter court, even into the utter court to the people, they shall put off their garments wherein they ministered, and lay them in the holy chambers, and they shall put on other garments; and they shall not sanctify the people with their garments.
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LAY, preterit tense of lie. The estate lay in the county of Hartford.
When Ahab heard these words, he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his head, and fasted and lay in sackcloth.
1 Kings 21:27.
LAY, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive laid. [Latin loco, whence locus, Eng. ley or lea. The primary sense is to send or throw; hence this word is the Latin lego, legare, differently applied; Gr. to lie down.]
1. Literally, to throw down; hence, to put or place; applied to things broad or long, and in this respect differing from set. We lay a book on the table, when we place it on its side, but we set it on the end. We lay the foundation of a house, but we set a building on its foundation.
He laid his robe from him. Jonah 3:6.
Soft on the flowery herb I found me laid.
A stone was brought and laid on the mouth of the den.
Daniel 6:1.
2. To beat down; to prostrate. Violent winds with rain lay corn and grass.
3. To settle; to fix and keep from rising. A shower lays the dust.
4. To place in order; to dispose with regularity in building; as, to lay bricks or stones in constructing walls.
5. To spread on a surface; as, to lay plaster or paint.
6. To spread or set; as, to lay snares.
7. To calm; to appease; to still; to allay.
After a tempest, when the winds are laid.
8. To quiet; to still; to restrain from walking; as, to lay the devil.
9. To spread and set in order; to prepare; as, to lay a table for dinner.
10. To place in the earth for growth.
The chief time of laying gilliflowers, is in July.
11. To place at hazard; to wage; to stake; as, to lay a crown or an eagle; to lay a wager.
12. To bring forth; to exclude; as, to lay eggs.
13. To add; to join.
Woe to them that join house to house, that lay field to field. Isaiah 5:6.
14. To put; to apply.
She layeth her hand to the spindle. Proverbs 31:19.
15. To asses; to charge; to impose; as, to lay a tax on land; to lay a duty on salt.
16. To charge; to impute; as, to lay blame on one; to lay want of prudence to one's charge.
17. To impose, as evil, burden, or punishment.
The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. Isaiah 5:63.
18. To enjoin as a duty; as, to lay commands on one.
19. To exhibit; to present or offer; as, to lay an indictment in a particular county.
20. To prostrate; to slay.
The leaders first he laid along.
21. To depress and lose sight of, by sailing or departing from; as, to lay the land; a seaman's phrase.
22. To station; to set; as, to lay an ambush.
23. To contrive; to scheme; to plan.
To lay a cable, to twist or unite the strands.
To lay apart, to put away; to reject.
LAY apart all filthiness. James 1:21.
1. To lay aside, to put off or away; not to retain.
Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that doth so easily beset us. Hebrews 12:1.
2. To discontinue; as, to lay aside the use of any thing.
To lay away, to reposit in store; to put aside for preservation.
To lay before, to exhibit; to show; to present to view. The papers are laid before Congress.
1. To lay by, to reserve for future use.
Let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him. 1 Corinthians 16:2.
2. To put away; to dismiss.
Let brave spirits not be laid by, as persons unnecessary for the time.
3. To put off.
And she arose and went away, and laid by her veil. Genesis 38:1.
1. To lay down, to deposit, as a pledge, equivalent or satisfaction; to resign.
I lay down my life for the sheep. John 10:15.
2. To give up; to resign; to quit or relinquish; as, to lay down an office or commission.
3. To quit; to surrender the use of; as, to lay down one's arms.
4. To offer or advance; as, to lay down a proposition or principle.
To lay one's self down, to commit to repose.
I will both lay me down in peace and sleep - Psalms 4:8.
To lay hold of, to seize; to catch. To lay hold on, is used in a like sense.
To lay in, to store; to treasure; to provide previously.
To lay on, to apply with force; to inflict; as, to lay on blows.
To lay open, to open; to make bare; to uncover; also, to show; to expose; to reveal; as, to lay open the designs of an enemy.
To lay over, to spread over; to incrust; to cover the surface; as, to lay over with gold or silver.
1. To lay out, to expend; as, to lay out money, or sums of money.
2. To display; to discover.
He takes occasion to lay out bigotry and false confidence in all its colors. obsolete
3. To plan; to dispose in order the several parts; as, to lay out a garden.
4. To dress in grave clothes and place in a decent posture; as, to lay out a corpse. Shakespeare uses to lay forth.
5. To exert; as, to lay out all one's strength. So with the reciprocal pronoun, to lay one's self out, is to exert strength.
1. To lay to, to charge upon; to impute.
2. To apply with vigor.
3. To attack or harass. obsolete
4. To check the motion of a ship, and cause her to be stationary.
To lay together, to collect; to bring to one place; also, to bring into one view.
To lay to heart, to permit to affect greatly.
To lay under, to subject to; as, to lay one under restraint or obligation.
1. To lay up, to store; to treasure; to reposit for future use.
LAY up for yourselves treasures in heaven. Matthew 6:19.
2. To confine to the bed or chamber. He is laid up with the gout.
To lay siege, to besiege; to encompass with an army.
To lay wait, to station for private attack; to lay in ambush for.
To lay the course, in sailing, is to sail towards the port intended, without gibing.
To lay waste, to destroy; to desolate; to deprive of inhabitants, improvements and productions.
To lay the land, in seamen's language, is to cause the land apparently to sink or appear lower, by sailing from it; the distance diminishing the elevation.
LAY, verb intransitive
1. To bring or produce eggs.
Hens will greedily eat the herb that will make them lay the better.
2. To contrive; to form a scheme. [Unusual.]
To lay about, to strike or throw the arms on all sides; to act with vigor.
To lay at, to strike or to endeavor to strike.
The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold. Job 41:8.
1. To lay out, to purpose; to intend. he lays out to make a journey.
2. To take measures.
I made strict inquiry wherever I came, and laid out for intelligence of all places.
To lay upon, to importune. obsolete
LAY, noun
1. That which lies or is laid; a row; a stratum; a layer; one rank in a series reckoned upward; as a lay of wood.
A viol should have a lay of wire-strings below.
2. A bet; a wager. [Little used.]
3. Station; rank. [Not used.]
LAY, noun [Latin locus. See lay the verb. The words which signify place, are from verbs which express setting or laying. It is written also ley, and lea, but less properly.]
A meadow; a plain or plat of grass land.
A tuft of daisies on a flowery lay
The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea.
LAY, noun [Gr. to sound. Latin laudo, plaudo.]
A song; as a loud or soft lay; immortal lays.
[It is used chiefly in poetry.]
LAY, adjective [Latin laicus, Gr. from people.]
Pertaining to the laity or people, as distinct from the clergy; not clerical; as a lay person; a lay preacher; a lay brother.
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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