Invade
Bible Usage:
- First Reference: 2 Chronicles 20:10
- Last Reference: Habakkuk 3:16
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: No
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
INVA'DE, verb transitive [Latin invado; in and vado, to go.]
1. To enter a country, as an army with hostile intentions; to enter as an enemy, with a view to conquest or plunder; to attack. The French armies invaded Holland in 1795. They invaded Russia and perished.
2. To attack; to assail; to assault.
There shall be seditions among men and invading one another. 2 Esdras.
3. To attack; to infringe; to encroach on; to violate. The king invaded the rights and privileges of the people, and the people invaded the prerogatives of the king.
4. To go into; a Latinism. [Not used.]
5. To fall on; to attack; to seize; as a disease.
INVA'DED, participle passive Entered by an army with a hostile design; attacked; assaulted; infringed; violated.
INVA'DER, noun One who enters the territory of another with a view to war, conquest or plunder.
1. An assailant.
2. An encroacher; an intruder; one who infringes the rights of another.