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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11 occurrences in 9 verses.
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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
Open full H7121 profile →ἀναγινώσκω
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
Open full G314 profile →קְרָא
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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G314
But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him;
G314
Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?
G314
And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
G314
And said unto him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?
G314
Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?
G314
But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying,
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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