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Have
King James Dictionary
or HAVE, hav. pret. and pp. had. Present, I have, thou hast, he has we, ye, they, have. L. habeo.
1. To possess to hold in possession or power.
How many loaves have ye? Matthew 15
He that gathered much had nothing over. Exodus 16
I have no Levite to my priest. Judges 17 .
To have and to hold, terms in a deed of conveyance.
2. To possess, as something that is connected with, or belongs to one.
Have ye a father? Have ye another brother? Gen.43, and 44.
--Sheep that have no shepherd. 50Kings 22.
3. To marry to take for a wife or husband.
In the resurrection, whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all had her. Matthew 22
4. To hold to regard. Thus, to have in honor, is to hold in esteem to esteem to honor.
To have in derision or contempt, to hold in derision or contempt to deride to despise.
5. To maintain to hold in opinion.
Sometimes they will have them to be the natural heat sometimes they will have them to be the qualities of the tangible parts.
6. To be urged by necessity or obligation to be under necessity, or impelled by duty.
I have to visit twenty patients every day.
We have to strive against temptations.
We have to encounter strong prejudices.
The nation has to pay the interest of an immense debt.
7. To seize and hold to catch. The hound has him. The original, but now a vulgar use of the word.
8. To contain. The work has many beauties and many faults.
9. To gain to procure to receive to obtain to purchase. I had this cloth very cheap.
He has a guinea a month.
He has high wages for his services.
Had rather, denotes wish or preference.
I had rather be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than dwell in the tents of wickedness. Psalms 84
Is not this phrase a corruption of would rather?
To have after, to pursue. Not much used, nor elegant.
To have away, to remove to take away.
To have at, to encounter to assail as, to have at him to have at you. Legitimate, but vulgar.
To enter into competition with to make trial with.
Dryden uses in a like sense, have with you but these uses are inelegant.
To have in, to contain.
To have on, to wear to carry as raiment or weapons.
He saw a man who had not on a wedding garment. Matthew 22
To have out, to cause to depart. 2 Samuel 13
To have a care, to take care to be on the guard, or to guard.
To have pleasure,to enjoy.
To have pain, to suffer.
To have sorrow, to be grieved or afflicted.
With would and should.
He would have, he desires to have, or he requires.
He should have, he ought to have.
But the various uses of have in such phrases,and its uses as an auxiliary verb, are fully explained in grammars. As an auxiliary, it assists in forming the perfect tense, as I have formed, thou hast formed, he hath or has formed, we have formed, and the prior-past tense, as I had seen, thou hadst seen, he had seen.
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.
Entry for 'Have'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/h/have.html.
