Lectionary Calendar
Saturday, February 22nd, 2025
the Sixth Week after Epiphany
the Sixth Week after Epiphany
There are 57 days til Easter!
advertisement
advertisement
advertisement
Attention!
StudyLight.org has pledged to help build churches in Uganda. Help us with that pledge and support pastors in the heart of Africa.
Click here to join the effort!
Click here to join the effort!
Bible Dictionaries
Fleece
King James Dictionary
or Resource Toolbox
Additional Links
FLEECE, n. flees. L. vellus, from vello, to pluck or tear off.
The coat of wool shorn from a sheep at one time.
FLEECE,
1. To shear off a covering or growth of wool.
2. To strip of money or property to take from, by severe exactions, under color of law or justice, or pretext of necessity, or by virtue of authority. Arbitrary princes fleece their subjects and clients complain that they are sometimes fleeced by their lawyers.
This word is rarely or never used for plundering in war by a licentious soldiery but is properly used to express a stripping by contributions levied on a conquered people.
3. To spread over as with wool to make white.
Copyright Statement
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.
Bibliography Information
Entry for 'Fleece'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/f/fleece.html.
Entry for 'Fleece'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/f/fleece.html.
