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Sunday, December 22nd, 2024
the Fourth Week of Advent
the Fourth Week of Advent
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Intend
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INTEND', L. intendo in and tendo, to stretch or strain, from teneo Gr. to stretch.
1. To stretch to strain to extend to distend.
By this the lungs are intended or remitted.
This literal sense is now uncommon.
2. To mean to design to purpose, that is, to stretch or set forward in mind. This is now the usual sense.
For they intended evil against thee. Psalms 21
3. To regard to fix the mind on to attend to take care of.
Having no children, she did with singular care and tenderness intend the education of Phillip.
This use of the word is now obsolete. We now use tend and superintend or regard.
4. To enforce to make intense.
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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 'Intend'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/i/intend.html.
Entry for 'Intend'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/i/intend.html.
