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Punish
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PUN'ISH, L. punio, from the root of poena,pain. The primary sense is to press or strain.
1. To pain to afflict with pain, loss or calamity for a crime or fault primarily, to afflict with bodily pain, as to punish a thief with pillory or stripes but the word is applied also to affliction by loss of property, by transportation, banishment, seclusion from society, &c. The laws require murderers to be punished with death. Other offenders are to be punished with fines, imprisonment, hard labor,&c. God punishes men for their sins with calamities personal and national.
2. To chastise as, a father punishes his child for disobedience.
3. To regard with pain or suffering inflicted on the offender applied to the crime as, to punish murder or theft.
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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 'Punish'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/p/punish.html.
Entry for 'Punish'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/p/punish.html.
