the Fourth Week of Advent
Click here to join the effort!
Bible Dictionaries
Visit
King James Dictionary
or VIS'IT, L. visito, viso, to go to see. We see the sense is to go, to move to.
1. To go or come to see to attend. The physician visits his patient and prescribes. One friend visits another from respect or affection. Paul and Barnabas visited the churches they had planted, to know their state and confirm their faith. Men visit England, France or Italy in their travels.
2. To go or come to see for inspection, examination, correction of abuses, &c. as, a bishop visits his diocese a superintendent visits those persons or works which are under his care.
3. To salute with a present.
Samson visited his wife with a kid. Judges 15 .
4. To go to and to use as, to visit the springs.
To visit in mercy, in Scriptural language, to be propitious to grant requests to deliver from trouble to support and comfort.
It is thus God visits his people. Genesis 21 . Zechariah 10 .
Luke 12 .
To visit with the rod, to punish. Psalms 89 .
To visit in wrath, or visit iniquity or sings upon, to chastise to bring judgments on to afflict. Exodus 20 .
To visit the fatherless and widow, or the sick and imprisoned, to show them regard and pity, and relieve their wants. Matthew 25 . James 1 .
VIS'IT, To keep up the interchange of civilities and salutations to practice going to see others. We ought not to visit for pleasure or ceremony on the sabbath.
VIS'IT, n.
1. The act of going to see another, or of calling at his house a waiting on as a visit of civility or respect a visit of ceremony a short visit a long visit a pleasant visit.
2. The act of going to see as a visit to Saratoga or to Niagara.
3. A going to see or attending on as the visit of a physician.
4. The act of going to view or inspect as the visit of a trustee or inspector.
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 'Visit'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/v/visit.html.
