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Enjoin

Enjoin

To command; charge.

For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people, saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath ENJOINED unto you. ( Hebrews 9:19-20 )

Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.

Bibliography Information

"Entry for 'Enjoin'". Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. . New York, N.Y., 1999.

ENJOIN

en-join':

Its usual sense is "to impose something," as a command, a charge or a direction. In this last sense it is used in Job 36:23, i.e. "Who hath directed?" In Esther 9:31 it means "to command"; in Philemon 1:8, "to order" or "direct."


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Bibliography Information
Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'ENJOIN'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.  

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