Defend
King James Dictionary [1]
1. To drive from to thrust back hence, to deny to repel a demand, charge, or accusation to oppose to resist the effect of which is to maintain ones own claims. 2. To forbid to prohibit that is, to drive from, or back. Milton calls the forbidden fruit, the defended fruit.
The use of wine in some places is defended by customs or laws.
3. To drive back a foe or danger to repel from any thing that which assails or annoys to protect by opposition or resistance to support or maintain to prevent from being injured, or destroyed.
There arose, to defend Israel, Tola the son of Puah. Judges 10
4. To vindicate to assert to uphold to maintain uninjured, by force or by argument as, to defend our cause to defend rights and privileges to defend reputation. 5. To secure against attacks or evil to fortify against danger or violence to set obstacles to the approach of any thing that can annoy. A garden may be defended by a wall, a hill or a river.
DEFEND, To make opposition as, the party comes into court, defends and says.
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [2]
"to ward off," is used in the Middle Voice in Acts 7:24 , of the assistance given by Moses to his fellow Israelite against an Egyptian (translated, "defended"). The Middle Voice indicates the special personal interest Moses had in the act.
Webster's Dictionary [3]
(1): ( v. t.) To deny the right of the plaintiff in regard to (the suit, or the wrong charged); to oppose or resist, as a claim at law; to contest, as a suit.
(2): ( v. t.) To repel danger or harm from; to protect; to secure against; attack; to maintain against force or argument; to uphold; to guard; as, to defend a town; to defend a cause; to defend character; to defend the absent; - sometimes followed by from or against; as, to defend one's self from, or against, one's enemies.
(3): ( v. t.) To prohibit; to forbid.
(4): ( v. t.) To ward or fend off; to drive back or away; to repel.
