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ENJOY',

1. To feel or perceive with pleasure to take pleasure or satisfaction in the possession or experience of. We enjoy the dainties of a feast,the conversation of friends, and our own meditations.

I could enjoy the pangs of death,

And smile in agony.

2. To possess with satisfaction to take pleasure or delight in the possession of.

Thou shalt beget sons, but thou shalt not enjoy them. Deuteronomy 28

3. To have, possess and use with satisfaction to have,hold or occupy, as a good or profitable thing, or as something desirable. We enjoy a free constitution and inestimable privileges.

That the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers. Numbers 36

The land shall enjoy her sabbaths. Leviticus 26

To enjoy one's self, is to feel pleasure or satisfaction in one's own mind, or to relish the pleasures in which one partakes to be happy.

ENJOY', To live in happiness. Unusual.

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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.

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