Exodus 24:7
And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient.
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Revelation 5:4
And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon.
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Exodus
11 verses
Deuteronomy
22 verses
Joshua
22 verses
2 Kings
66 verses
2 Chronicles
33 verses
Ezra
22 verses
Nehemiah
55 verses
Esther
11 verses
Isaiah
44 verses
Jeremiah
119 verses
Daniel
55 verses
Matthew
66 verses
Mark
33 verses
Luke
22 verses
John
11 verses
Acts
77 verses
2 Corinthians
33 verses
Ephesians
11 verses
Colossians
31 verses
1 Thessalonians
11 verses
Revelation
11 verses
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קָרָא
qârâʼ · kaw-raw'
35 times translated as this KJV form736 total Strong's occurrences
to call out to (i.e. properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications)
Strong's KJV usage: bewray (self), that are bidden, call (for, forth, self, upon), cry (unto), (be) famous, guest, invite, mention, (give) name, preach, (make) proclaim(-ation), pronounce, publish, read, renowned, say.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 24:7Strong's last: Jeremiah 51:61
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anaginṓskō · an-ag-in-oce'-ko
28 times translated as this KJV form44 total Strong's occurrences
to know again, i.e. (by extension) to read
Strong's KJV usage: :--read.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 12:3Strong's last: Revelation 5:4
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qᵉrâʼ · ker-aw'
7 times translated as this KJV form11 total Strong's occurrences
Strong's KJV usage: call, cry, read.
Strong's first: Ezra 4:18Strong's last: Daniel 5:17
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H7121
And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient.
H7121
And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them:
H7121
When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.
H7121
And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings and cursings, according to all that is written in the book of the law.
H7121
There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua read not before all the congregation of Israel, with the women, and the little ones, and the strangers that were conversant among them.
H7121
And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy? wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me.
H7121
And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.
H7121
And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.
H7121
And Shaphan the scribe shewed the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath delivered me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.
H7121
Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the words of the book which the king of Judah hath read:
H7121
And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the LORD.
H7121
Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath given me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.
H7121
Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah:
H7121
And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people, great and small: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of the LORD.
H7123
The letter which ye sent unto us hath been plainly read before me.
H7123
Now when the copy of king Artaxerxes' letter was read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went up in haste to Jerusalem unto the Jews, and made them to cease by force and power.
H7121
And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law.
H7121
So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.
H7121
Also day by day, from the first day unto the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. And they kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according unto the manner.
H7121
And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of the LORD their God one fourth part of the day; and another fourth part they confessed, and worshipped the LORD their God.
H7121
On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and therein was found written, that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into the congregation of God for ever;
H7121
On that night could not the king sleep, and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king.
H7121
And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed:
H7121
And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.
H7121
Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.
English meaning and historical usage.
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read
READ, noun [See the Verb.]
1. Counsel. [Obs.]
2. Saying; sentence. obsolete
READ, verb transitive The preterit and participle passive read is pronounced red. [Gr. to say or tell, to flow; a speaker, a rhetorician. The primary sense of read is to speak, to utter, that is, to push, drive or advance. This is also the primary sense of ready, that is, prompt or advancing, quick. Latin gratia, the primary sense of which is prompt to favor, advancing towards, free. The elements of these words are the same as those of ride and Latin gradior, etc. The sense of reason is secondary, that which is uttered, said or set forth; hence counsel also. See Ready.]
1. To utter or pronounce written or printed words, letters or characters in the proper order; to repeat the names or utter the sounds customarily annexed to words, letters or characters; as, to read a written or printed discourse; to read the letters of an alphabet; to read figures; to read the notes of music, or to read music.
2. To inspect and understand words or characters; to peruse silently; as, to read a paper or letter without uttering the words; to read to one's self.
3. To discover or understand by characters, marks or features; as, to read a man's thoughts in his countenance.
To read the interior structure of the globe.
An armed corse did lie, in whose dead face he read great magnanimity.
4. To learn by observation.
Those about her from her shall read the perfect ways of honor.
5. To know fully.
Who is't can read a woman?
6. To suppose; to guess. obsolete
7. To advise. obsolete
READ, verb intransitive
1. To perform the act of reading.
So they read in the book of the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense. Nehemiah 8:3.
2. To be studious; to practice much reading.
It is sure that Fleury roads.
3. To learn by reading.
I have read of an eastern king who put a judge to death for an iniquitous sentence.
4. To tell; to declare. [Not in use.]
READ, participle passive red.
1. Uttered; pronounced, as written words in the proper order; as, the letter was read to the family.
2. Silently perused.
READ, adjective red. Instructed or knowing by reading; versed in books; learned. Well read is the phrase commonly used; as well read in history; well read in the classics.
A poet well read in Longinus -
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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