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View
King James Dictionary
or VIEW, vu. L. videre. The primary sense is to reach or extend to.
1. To survey to examine with the eye to look on with attention, or for the purpose of examining to inspect to explore. View differs from look, see, and behold, in expressing more particular or continued attention to the thing which is the object of sight. We ascended mount Holyoke, and viewed the charming landscape below. We viewed with delight the rich valleys of the Connecticut about the town of Northhampton.
Go up and view the country. Joshua 7 .
I viewed the walls of Jerusalem. Nehemiah 7 .
2. To see to perceive by the eye.
3. To survey intellectually to examine with the mental eye to consider. View the subject in all its aspects.
VIEW, n. vu.
1. Prospect sight reach of the eye.
The walls of Pluto's palace are in view.
2. The whole extent seen. Vast or extensive views present themselves to the eye.
3. Sight power of seeing, or limit of sight.
The mountain was not within our view.
4. Intellectual or mental sight. These things give us a just view of the designs of providence.
5. Act of seeing. The facts mentioned were verified by actual view.
6. Slight eye.
Objects near our view are thought greater than those of larger size, that are more remote.
7. Survey inspection examination by the eye. The assessors took a view of the premises.
Surveying nature with too nice a view.
8. Intellectual survey mental examination.
On a just view of all the arguments in the case, the law appears to be clear.
9. Appearance show.
10. Display exhibition to the sight or mind.
To give a right view of this mistaken part of liberty. -
11. Prospect of interest.
No man sets himself about any thing, but upon some view or other, which serves him for a reason.
12. Intention purpose design. With that view he began the expedition. With a view to commerce, he passed through Egypt.
13. Opinion manner of seeing or understanding. These are my views of the policy which ought to be pursued.
View of frankpledge, in law, a court of record, held in a hundred, lordship or manor, before the stewart of the leet.
Point of view, the direction in which a thing is seen.
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 'View'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/v/view.html.
