Frequent
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) Addicted to any course of conduct; inclined to indulge in any practice; habitual; persistent.
(2): ( n.) Full; crowded; thronged.
(3): ( n.) Often or commonly reported.
(4): ( a.) To visit often; to resort to often or habitually.
(5): ( a.) To make full; to fill.
(6): ( n.) Often to be met with; happening at short intervals; often repeated or occurring; as, frequent visits.
King James Dictionary [2]
FRE'QUENT, a. L. frequens.
1. Often seen or done often happening at short intervals often repeated or occurring. We made frequent visits to the hospital. 2. Used often to practice any thing. He was frequent and loud in his declamations against the revolution. 3. Full crowded thronged. Not used.
Fre'Quent, L frequento.
To visit often to resort to often or habitually. The man who frequents a dram-shop, an ale house, or a gaming table, is in the road to poverty, disgrace and ruin.
He frequented the court of Augustus.
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [3]
2—Corinthians 11:23
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [4]
frē´kwent ( περισσοτέρως , perissotérōs ): "Frequent," adjective (from Latin frequens , frequentis , "crowded") occurs only once in the text of the King James Version, as the translation of perissoterōs , adverb in comparative degree of perissō̇s , "abundantly," hence, "more abundantly" (compare 2 Corinthians 1:12 ); in 2 Corinthians 11:23 , "in prisons more frequent," the Revised Version (British and American) "more abundantly"; and once in the margin of the King James Version ( Proverbs 27:6 ) as translation of ̇‛āthar , "to be abundant," the Revised Version (British and American) in text, "profuse."
American Revised Version has "frequent" for "open" ( 1 Samuel 3:1 , "The word of Yahweh was precious (margin, rare) in those days; there was no frequent vision," margin "(Hebrew) widely spread" (the word is pārac , "to break forth," "to scatter," etc.). the English Revised Version retains "open," with "frequent, Hebrew widely spread" in the margin. "Frequent" (the verb) does not occur.
