Bible Dictionaries
Leave
King James Dictionary
LEAVE, n.
1. Permission allowance license liberty granted by which restraint or illegality is removed.
No friend has leave to bear away the dead.
David earnestly asked leave of me. 1 Samuel 20 .
2. Farewell adieu ceremony of departure a formal parting of friends used chiefly in the phrase to take leave. Acts 18 .
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Entry for 'Leave'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/l/leave.html.