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Howbeit the LORD God of Israel chose me before all the house of my father to be king over Israel for ever: for he hath chosen Judah to be the ruler; and of the house of Judah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father he liked me to make me king over all Israel:
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râtsâh · raw-tsaw'
to be pleased with; specifically, to satisfy a debt
Strong's KJV usage: (be) accept(-able), accomplish, set affection, approve, consent with, delight (self), enjoy, (be, have a) favour(-able), like, observe, pardon, (be, have, take) please(-ure), reconcile self.
Strong's first: 1 Chronicles 28:4Strong's last: 1 Chronicles 28:4
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Howbeit the LORD God of Israel chose me before all the house of my father to be king over Israel for ever: for he hath chosen Judah to be the ruler; and of the house of Judah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father he liked me to make me king over all Israel:
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LIKE, adjective [Latin , Heb., Gr. See Lick and Lickerish.]
1. Equal in quantity, quality or degree; as a territory of like extent with another; men of like excellence.
More clergymen were impoverished by the late war, than ever in the like space before.
2. Similar; resembling; having resemblance.
Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are.
James 5:17.
Why might not other planets have been created for like uses with the earth, each for its own inhabitants?
LIKE is usually followed by to or unto, but it is often omitted.
What city is like unto this great city? Revelation 18:18.
I saw three unclean spirits like frogs. Revelation 16:13.
Among them all was found none like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. Daniel 1:19.
3. Probably; likely, that is, having the resemblance or appearance of an event; giving reason to expect or believe.
He is like to die of hunger in the place where he is, for there is no more bread. Jeremiah 38:9.
Many were not easy to be governed, not like to conform themselves to strict rules.
LIKE, noun [elliptically, for like thing, like event, like person.]
1. some person or thing resembling another; an equal. The like lmay never happen again.
He was a man, take him for all and all, I shall not look upon his like again.
2. had like in the phrase, 'he had like to be defeated, ' seems to be a corruption; but perhaps like here is used for resemblance or probability, and has the character of a noun. At any rate, as a phrase, it is authorized by good usage.
LIKE, adverb
1. In the same manner.
- Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Matthew 6:8. Luke 12:27.
LIKE as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him. Psalms 103:5.
2. In a manner becoming.
Be strong, and quit yourselves like men. 1 Samuel 4:9.
3. Likely; probably; as like enough it will.
LIKE, verb transitive [Latin placeo and delecto, with prefixes.]
1. To be pleased with in a moderate degree; to approve. it expresses less than love and delight. We like a plan or design, when we approve of it as correct or beneficial. We like the character or conduct of a man when it comports with our view of rectitude. We like food that the taste relishes. We like whatever gives us pleasure.
He proceeded from looking to liking, and from liking to loving.
2. to please; to be agreeable to.
This desire being recommended to her majesty, it like her to include the same within one entire lease. obsolete
3. To liken. obsolete
LIKE, verb intransitive
1. To be pleased; to choose.
He may go or stay, as he likes.
2. To like of, to be pleased. obsolete
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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