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Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said unto him, What hast thou done unto us? and what have I offended thee, that thou hast brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? thou hast done deeds unto me that ought not to be done.
Read in context →We therefore ought to receive such, that we might be fellowhelpers to the truth.
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deî · die
also δέον deh-on'; neuter active participle of the same; both used impersonally; it is (was, etc.) necessary (as binding)
Strong's KJV usage: :--behoved, be meet, must (needs), (be) need(-ful), ought, should.
Strong's first: Matthew 23:23Strong's last: 2 Peter 3:11
Open full G1163 profile →opheílō · of-i'-lo
to owe (pecuniarily); figuratively, to be under obligation (ought, must, should); morally, to fail in duty
Strong's KJV usage: :--behove, be bound, (be) debt(-or), (be) due(-ty), be guilty (indebted), (must) need(-s), ought, owe, should.
Strong's first: John 13:14Strong's last: 3 John 1:8
Open full G3784 profile →tìs · tis
some or any person or object
Strong's KJV usage: :--a (kind of), any (man, thing, thing at all), certain (thing), divers, he (every) man, one (X thing), ought, + partly, some (man, -body, - thing, -what), (+ that no-)thing, what(-soever), X wherewith, whom(-soever), whose(-soever).
Strong's first: Matthew 5:23Strong's last: Philemon 1:18
Open full G5100 profile →mᵉʼûwmâh · meh-oo'-maw
properly, a speck or point, i.e. (by implication) something; with negative, nothing
Strong's KJV usage: fault, no(-ught), ought, somewhat, any (no-)thing.
Strong's first: Genesis 39:6Strong's last: 2 Samuel 3:35
Open full H3972 profile →dâbâr · daw-baw'
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
Strong's KJV usage: act, advice, affair, answer, × any such (thing), because of, book, business, care, case, cause, certain rate, chronicles, commandment, × commune(-ication), concern(-ing), confer, counsel, dearth, decree, deed, × disease, due, duty, effect, eloquent, errand, (evil favoured-) ness, glory, harm, hurt, iniquity, judgment, language, lying, manner, matter, message, (no) thing, oracle, × ought, × parts, pertaining, please, portion, power, promise, provision, purpose, question, rate, reason, report, request, × (as hast) said, sake, saying, sentence, sign, so, some (uncleanness), somewhat to say, song, speech, × spoken, talk, task, that, × there done, thing (concerning), thought, thus, tidings, what(-soever), wherewith, which, word, work.
Strong's first: Exodus 5:11Strong's last: Joshua 21:45
Open full H1697 profile →oudeís · oo-dice'
not even one (man, woman or thing), i.e. none, nobody, nothing
Strong's KJV usage: :--any (man), aught, man, neither any (thing), never (man), no (man), none (+ of these things), not (any, at all, -thing), nought.
Strong's first: Mark 7:12Strong's last: Mark 7:12
Open full G3762 profile →peritémnō · per-ee-tem'-no
to cut around, i.e. (specially) to circumcise
Strong's KJV usage: :--circumcise.
Strong's first: Acts 21:21Strong's last: Acts 21:21
Open full G4059 profile →chrḗ · khray
it needs (must or should) be
Strong's KJV usage: :--ought.
Strong's first: James 3:10Strong's last: James 3:10
Open full G5534 profile →kên · kane
properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner, time and relation; often with other particles)
Strong's KJV usage: after that (this, -ward, -wards), as... as, (for-) asmuch as yet, be (for which) cause, following, howbeit, in (the) like (manner, -wise), × the more, right, (even) so, state, straightway, such (thing), surely, there (where) -fore, this, thus, true, well, × you.
Strong's first: 2 Samuel 13:12Strong's last: 2 Samuel 13:12
Open full H3651 profile →mimkâr · mim-kawr'
merchandise; abstractly, a selling
Strong's KJV usage: × ought, (that which cometh of) sale, that which...sold, ware.
Strong's first: Leviticus 25:14Strong's last: Leviticus 25:14
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So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.
I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.
Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
That I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak.
Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.
For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;
And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.
If he hath wronged thee, or oweth thee ought, put that on mine account;
Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
And by reason hereof he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.
For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.
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.
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
We therefore ought to receive such, that we might be fellowhelpers to the truth.
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OUGHT. [See Aught, the true orthography.]
OUGHT, v. imperfect, aut.
1. To be held or bound in duty or moral obligation.
These ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. Matthew 23:23.
We that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak. Romans 15:1.
Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers. Matthew 25:27.
2. To be necessary; to behoove.
OUGHT not Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into glory? Luke 24:26.
3. To be fit or expedient in a moral view.
My brethren, these things ought not so to be. James 3:10.
4. As a participle, owed; been indebted to.
The love and duty I long have ought you.
That followed, sir, which to myself I ought
[In this sense, obsolete.]
5. In Chaucer's time, it was used impersonally. 'Wel ought us werke, ' that is, well it behooveth us to work.
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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