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Bible Dictionaries
Move
King James Dictionary
or MOVE, moov. L. moveo.
1. To impel to carry, convey or draw from one place to another to cause to change place or posture in any manner or by any means. The wind moves a ship the cartman moves goods the horse moves a cart or carriage. Mere matter cannot move itself. Machines are moved by springs, weights, or force applied.
2. To excite into action to affect to agitate to rouse as, to move the passions.
3. To cause to act or determine as, to move the will.
4. To persuade to prevail on to excite from a state of rest or indifference.
Minds desirous of revenge were not moved with gold.
But when no female arts his mind could move,
She turn'd to furious hate her impious love.
5. To excite tenderness, pity or grief in the heart to affect to touch pathetically to excite feeling in.
The use of images in orations and poetry is to move pity or terror.
When he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them--Matthew 9
6. To make angry to provoke to irritate.
7. To excite tumult or commotion.
When they had come to Bethlehem, all the city was moved about them. Ruth 1 . Matthew 21
8. To influence or incite by secret agency.
God moved them to depart from him. 2 Chronicles 18; 2 Peter 1
9. To shake to agitate.
The kingdoms were moved. Psalms 46; Jeremiah 49
10. To propose to offer for consideration and determination as, to move a resolution in a deliberative assembly.
11. To propose to recommend.
They are to be blamed alike who move and who decline war upon particular respects.
12. To prompt to incite to instigate. Acts 17 .
MOVE, To change place or posture to stir to pass or go in any manner or direction from one place or part of space to another. The planets move in their orbits the earth moves on its axis a ship moves at a certain rate an hour. We move by walking, running or turning animals move by creeping, swimming or flying.
On the green bank I sat and listened long,
Nor till her lay was ended could I move.
1. To have action.
In him we live, and move, and have our being. Acts 17
2. To have the power of action.
Every moving thing that liveth, shall be meat for you.
Genesis 9
3. To walk.
He moves with manly grace.
4. To march. The army moved and took a position behind a wood.
5. To tremble to shake.
The foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth. Psalms 18
6. To change residence. Men move with their families from one house, town or state to another.
MOVE, n. The act of moving the act of transferring from place to place, as in chess.
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 'Move'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/m/move.html.
