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Report
King James Dictionary
or REPORT, 50reporto, to carry back re and porto, to bear.
1. To bear or bring back an answer, or to relate what has been discovered by a person sent to examine, explore or investigate as, a messenger reports to his employer what he has seen or ascertained. The committee reported the whole number of votes.
2. To give an account of to relate to tell.
They reported his good deeds before me. Nehemiah 6 . Acts 4 .
3. To tell or relate from one to another to circulate publicly, as a story as in the common phrase, it is reported.
It is reported among the heathen, and Gashmu saith it, that thou and the Jews think to rebel. Nehemiah 6 .
In this form of expression, it refers to the subsequent clause of the sentence "that thou and the Jews think to rebel, is reported."
4. To give an official account or statement as, the secretary of the treasury reports to congress annually the amount of revenue and expenditure.
5. To give an account or statement of cases and decisions in a court of law or chancery.
6. To return, as sound to give back.
To be reported, or usually, to be reported of, to be well or spoken of to be mentioned with respect or reproach.
Acts 16 . Romans 3 .
REPORT, To make a statement of facts. The committee will report at twelve o'clock.
REPORT, n.
1. An account returned a statement or relation of facts given in reply to inquiry, or by a person authorized to examine and make return to his employer.
From Thetis sent as spies to make report.
2. Rumor common fame story circulated. Report, though often originating in fact, soon becomes incorrect, and is seldom deserving of credit. When we have no evidence but popular report, it is prudent to suspend our opinions in regard to the facts.
3. Repute public character as evil report and good report. 2 Corinthians 6 .
Cornelius was of good report among the Jews. Acts 10 .
4. Account story relation.
It was a true report that I heard in my own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom. 1 Kings 10 .
5. Sound noise as the report of a pistol or cannon.
6. An account or statement of a judicial opinion or decision, or of a case argued and determined in a court of law, chancery, &c. The books containing such statements are also called reports.
7. An official statement of facts, verbal or written particularly, a statement in writing of proceedings and facts exhibited by an officer to his superiors as the reports of the heads of departments to congress, of a master in chancery to the court, of committees to a legislative body and the like.
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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 'Report'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/r/report.html.
