KJV Dictionary Definition: hurt

hurt

HURT, v.t. pret. and pp. hurt.

1. To bruise; to give pain by a contusion, pressure, or any violence to the body. We hurt the body by a severe blow, or by tight clothes, and the feet by fetters. Ps.105.

2. To wound; to injure or impair the sound state of the body,as by incision or fracture.

3. To harm; to damage; to injure by occasioning loss. We hurt a man by destroying his property.

4. To injure by diminution; to impair.

A man hurts his estate by extravagance.

5. To injure by reducing in quality; to impair the strength,purity or beauty of.

Hurt not the wine and the oil--Rev.6.

6. To harm; to injure; to damage, in general.

7. To wound; to injure; to give pain to; as, to hurt the feelings.

HURT, n. A wound; a bruise; any thing that gives pain to the body.

The pains of sickness and hurts.

1. Harm; mischief; injury.

I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt. Gen.4.

2. Injury; loss.

Why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings? Ezra.4.

hurtful

HURT'FUL, a. Injurious; mischievous; occasioning loss or destruction; tending to impair or destroy. Negligence is hurtful to property; intemperance is hurtful to health.

hurtfulness

HURT'FULNESS, n. Injuriousness; tendency to occasion loss or destruction; mischievousness.

Definitions from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.

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