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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Mayest

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

114exact KJV occurrences 101Old Testament 13New Testament 30books containing the word 8mapped Strong's IDs 15occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

Genesis 2:16

And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

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LAST OCCURRENCE

Revelation 3:18

I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where mayest appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

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GreekG1832
ἔξεστι

éxesti · ex'-es-tee

1 times translated as this KJV form43 total Strong's occurrences

so also ἐξόν ex-on' neuter present participle of the same (with or without some form of G1510 expressed); impersonally, it is right (through the figurative idea of being out in public)

Strong's KJV usage: :--be lawful, let, X may(-est).

Strong's first: Acts 8:37Strong's last: Acts 8:37

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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114 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.

2 Chronicles 18:33
no direct Strong's tag

And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness: therefore he said to his chariot man, Turn thine hand, that thou mayest carry me out of the host; for I am wounded.

Ezra 7:17
no direct Strong's tag

That thou mayest buy speedily with this money bullocks, rams, lambs, with their meat offerings and their drink offerings, and offer them upon the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem.

Nehemiah 1:6
no direct Strong's tag

Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father's house have sinned.

Nehemiah 6:6
no direct Strong's tag

Wherein was written, It is reported among the heathen, and Gashmu saith it, that thou and the Jews think to rebel: for which cause thou buildest the wall, that thou mayest be their king, according to these words.

Job 40:8
no direct Strong's tag

Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?

Psalms 32:6
no direct Strong's tag

For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.

Psalms 45:16
no direct Strong's tag

Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.

Psalms 94:13
no direct Strong's tag

That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.

Psalms 104:27
no direct Strong's tag

These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their meat in due season.

Psalms 130:4
no direct Strong's tag

But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared.

Proverbs 2:20
no direct Strong's tag

That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

Proverbs 5:2
no direct Strong's tag

That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.

Proverbs 19:20
no direct Strong's tag

Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.

Isaiah 23:16
no direct Strong's tag

Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.

Isaiah 43:26
no direct Strong's tag

Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.

Isaiah 45:3
no direct Strong's tag

And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the LORD, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.

Isaiah 47:12
no direct Strong's tag

Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.

Isaiah 49:6
no direct Strong's tag

And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.

Isaiah 49:9
no direct Strong's tag

That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.

Jeremiah 4:14
no direct Strong's tag

O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?

Jeremiah 6:27
no direct Strong's tag

I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way.

Jeremiah 30:13
no direct Strong's tag

There is none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound up: thou hast no healing medicines.

Ezekiel 16:54
no direct Strong's tag

That thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto them.

Ezekiel 16:54
no direct Strong's tag

That thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto them.

Ezekiel 16:63
no direct Strong's tag

That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD.

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

may

MAY, noun [Latin Maius.]

1. The fifth month of the year, beginning with January, but the third, beginning with March, as was the ancient practice of the Romans.

2. A young woman.

3. The early part of life.

His may of youth and bloom of lustihood.

MAY, verb intransitive To gather flowers in May-morning.

MAY, verb aux; preterit tense might.

1. To be possible. We say, a thing may be, or may not be; an event may happen; a thing may be done, if means are not wanting.

2. To have physical power; to be able.

Make the most of life you may

3. To have moral power; to have liberty, leave, license or permission; to be permitted; to be allowed. A man may do what the laws permit. He may do what is not against decency, propriety or good manners. We may not violate the laws, or the rules of good breeding. I told the servant he might be absent.

Thou mayest be no longer steward. Luke 16:4.

4. It is used in prayer and petitions to express desire. O may we never experience the evils we dread. So also in expressions of good will. may you live happily, and be a blessing to your country. It was formerly used for can, and its radical sense is the same.

MAY be, it may be, are expressions equivalent to perhaps, by chance, peradventure, that is, it is possible to be.

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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