1 Kings 2:9
Now therefore hold him not guiltless: for thou art a wise man, and knowest what thou oughtest to do unto him; but his hoar head bring thou down to the grave with blood.
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1 Timothy 3:15
But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
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δεῖ
deî · die
3 times translated as this KJV form104 total Strong's occurrences
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.
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Strong's first: Matthew 25:27Strong's last: 1 Timothy 3:15
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Now therefore hold him not guiltless: for thou art a wise man, and knowest what thou oughtest to do unto him; but his hoar head bring thou down to the grave with blood.
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ought
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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