the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Heavy
King James Dictionary
or HEAV'Y, a. hev'y.
1. Weighty ponderous having great weight tending strongly to the center of attraction contrary to light applied to material bodies as a heavy stone a heavy load.
2. Sad sorrowful dejected depressed in mind.
A light wife makes a heavy husband.
So is he that singeth songs to a heavy heart. Proverbs 25
3. Grievous afflictive depressing to the spirits as heavy news a heavy calamity.
4. Burdensome oppressive as heavy taxes.
Make thy father's heavy yoke--lighter. 1 Kings 12
5. Wanting life and animation dull.
My heavy eyes you say confess
A heart to love and grief inclined.
6. Drowsy dull.
Their eyes were heavy. Matthew 26; Luke 9
7. Wanting spirit or animation destitute of life or rapidity of sentiment dull as a heavy writer a heavy style.
8. Wanting activity or vivacity indolent.
But of a heavy, dull, degenerate mind.
9. Slow sluggish.
He walks with a heavy gait.
10. Burdensome tedious as heavy hours.
Time lies heavy on him who has no employment.
11. Loaded encumbered burdened.
He found his men heavy, and laden with booty.
12. Lying with weight on the stomach not easily digested as, oily food is heavy to the stomach.
13. Moist deep soft miry as heavy land a heavy soil. We apply heavy to soft loamy or clayey land, which makes the draught of a plow or wagon difficult and laborious. So we say, a heavy road.
14. Difficult laborious as a heavy draught.
15. Weary supported with pain or difficulty.
And the hands of Moses were heavy. Exodus 17
16. Inflicting severe evils,punishments or judgments.
The hand of the Lord was heavy on them of Ashdod.
50Sam 5
17. Burdensome occasioning great care.
This thing is too heavy for thee. Exodus 18
18. Dull not hearing inattentive.
Neither his ears heavy, that he cannot hear. Isaiah 59
19. Large, as billows swelling and rolling with great force as a heavy sea.
20. Large in amount as a heavy expense a heavy debt.
21. Thick dense black as a heavy cloud.
22. Violent tempestuous as a heavy wind or gale.
23. Large abundant as a heavy fall of snow or rain.
24. Great violent forcible as a heavy fire of cannon or small arms.
25. Not raised by leaven or fermentation not light clammy as heavy bread.
26. Requiring much labor or much expense as a heavy undertaking.
27. Loud as heavy thunder.
Heavy metal, in military affairs, signifies large guns, carrying balls of a large size, or it is applied to large balls themselves.
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 'Heavy'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/h/heavy.html.
