Breed

King James Dictionary

BREED, pret. and pp. bred.

1. To generate to engender to hatch to produce the young of any species of animals. I think it is never used of plants, and in animals is always applied to the mother or dam.

2. To produce within or upon the body as, to breed teeth to breed worms.

3. To cause to occasion to produce to originate.

Intemperance and lust breed infirmities.

Ambition breeds factions.

4. To contrive to hatch to produce by plotting.

Had he a heart and a brain to breed it in?

5. To give birth to to be the native place of as, a pond breeds fish a northern country breeds a race of stout men.

6. To educate to instruct to form by education often, but unnecessarily, followed by up as, to breed a son to an occupation a man bred at a university. To breed up is vulgar.

7. To bring up to nurse and foster to take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth to provide for, train and conduct to instruct the mind and form the manners in youth.

To bring thee forth with pain, with care to breed.

BREED, To produce, as a fetus to bear and nourish, as in pregnancy as, a female breeds with pain.

1. To be formed in the parent or dam to be generated, or to grow, as young before birth as,children or young breed in the matrix.

2. To have birth to be produced as, fish breed in rivers.

3. To be increased by a new production.

But could youth last and love still breed.

4. To raise a breed as, to choose the best species of swine to breed from.

BREED, n. A race or progeny from the same parents or stock.

1. A cast a kind a race of men or other animals, which have an alliance by nativity, or some distinctive qualities in common as a breed of men in a particular country a breed of horses or sheep. Applied to men, it is not elegant. We use race.

2. Progeny offspring applied to other things than animals.

3. A number produced at once, a hatch a brood but for this, brood is generally used.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

brēd : Found in the past tense in Exodus 16:20 as a translation of רוּם , rūm = "to bring up," "to rise." In this verse, the manna is said to have arisen, i.e. "become alive" (with worms), to indicate that God's gifts are spoiled by selfish and miserly hoarding. The pres. act. occurs in Genesis 8:17 for שׁרץ , shārac = "to wriggle," "swarm," "abound," hence, "breed abundantly"; and in Deuteronomy 32:14 for בּן , bēn = "son," "descendant," "child," "colt," "calf," "breed." The present participle is found in Zephaniah 2:9 the King James Version for ממשׁק , mimshāḳ , a derivative of משׁק fo evit , mesheḳ = "possession," "territory," "field." The passage in question should therefore be translated "field of nettles" (the Revised Version (British and American) "possession of nettles").