Were
Bible Usage:
- were used 2,773 times.
- First Reference: Genesis 1:5
- Last Reference: Revelation 22:2
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:
- H1931 Used 1 time
- H1961 Used 227 times
- H3426 Used 7 times
- H3644 Used 2 times
- H4480 Used 2 times
- H5414 Used 4 times
- H7945 Used 2 times
- G1096 Used 24 times
- G1511 Used 4 times
- G1526 Used 8 times
- G1909 Used 1 time
- G2076 Used 5 times
- G2192 Used 2 times
- G2258 Used 116 times
- G2532 Used 2 times
- G3303 Used 1 time
- G5225 Used 5 times
- G5600 Used 1 time
- G5607 Used 22 times
- G5613 Used 20 times
- G5616 Used 1 time
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Were
WERE, pronoun er, which when prolonged, becomes ware. This is used as the imperfect tense plural of be; we were you were they were; and in some other tenses. It is the Danish verb vaerer, to be, to exist, and in origin has no connection with be, nor with was. It is united with be, to supply its want of tenses, as went is with go.
WERE, noun A dam. [See Wear.]
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Weregild
WEREGILD, noun Formerly, the price of a mans head; a compensation paid for a man killed, partly to the king for the loss of a subject, and partly tot he lord of the vassal, and partly to the next of kin. It was paid by the murderer.