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BID, pret. bid, or bade pp. bid, bidden. L. peto, to drive at, to attack, to ask, to desire, to beseech, anciently beto impetus. Applied to the voice, it denotes utterance, a driving of sounds, which is applied to asking, prayer, and command. Class Bd.
1. To ask to request to invite.
Go ye into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage. Math 22
This sense is antiquated, but we have the same word from the Latin, in invite, in and bid.
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Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
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Entry for 'Bid'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/b/bid.html.
Entry for 'Bid'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/b/bid.html.
