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Yearn
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YEARN, YERN, G. The sense is to strain, or stretch forward. We have earnest from the same root.
1. To be strained to be pained or distressed to suffer.
Falstaff, he is dead, and we must yearn therefore.
2. Usually, to long to feel an earnest desire that is literally, to have a desire or inclination stretching towards the object or end. 1 Kings 3 .
Joseph made haste, for his bowels did yearn upon his brother. Genesis 43 .
Your mothers heart yearns toward you.
--Anticlus, unable to control, spoke loud the language of his yearning soul.
YEARN, YERN, To pain to grieve to vex.
She laments for it, that it would yearn your heart to see it.
It yearns me not if men my garments wear.
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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.
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.
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Entry for 'Yearn'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/y/yearn.html.
Entry for 'Yearn'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/y/yearn.html.
