Acquaintance
Bible Usage:
- Acquaint used once.
- acquaintance used 11 times.
- acquainted used twice.
- acquainting used once.
- First Reference: 2 Kings 12:5
- Last Reference: Acts 24:23
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Acquaintance
ACQUAI'NTANCE, noun
1. Familiar knowledge; a state of being acquainted, or of having intimate or more than slight or superficial knowledge; as, I know the man, but have no acquaintance with him. Sometimes it denotes a more slight knowledge.
2. A person or persons well known; usually persons we have been accustomed to see and converse with; sometimes, persons more slightly known.
Lover and friend has thou put far from me and mine acquaintance into darkness. Psalms 88:8.
My acquaintance are estranged from me. Job 19:13.
Acquaintances, in the plural is used, as applied to individual persons known; but more generally, acquaintance is used for one or more.
Acquaintant, in a like sense, is not used.