Quit
King James Dictionary [1]
QUIT, pret. and pp. quit or quitted. L. cedo. The sense of quit is to leave, to withdraw from but the primary sense of the root must have been to move or to send for to requite is to send back.
1. To leave to depart from, either temporarily or forever. It does not necessarily include the idea of abandoning, without a qualifying word. A man quits his house for an hour, or for a month. He quits his native country on a voyage or he quits it forever he quits an employment with the intention of resuming it. 2. To free to clear to liberate to discharge from.
To quit you of this fear, you have already looked death in the face. Nearly obsolete.
3. To carry through to do or perform something to the end, so that nothing remains to discharge or perform completely.
Never a worthy prince a day did quit with greater hazard and with more renown.
4. To quit one's self, reciprocally, to clear one's self of incumbent duties by full performance.
Samson hath quit himself like Samson.
In this sense, acquit is generally used.
5. To repay to requite.
- Enkindle all the sparks of nature to quit this horrid act.
In this sense, quit is now rarely used. We use requite.
6. To vacate obligation to release to free from
Dangers of law, actions, decrees, judgments against us quitted.
7. To pay to discharge hence, to free from as, to quit the debt of gratitude. 8. To set free to release to absolve to acquit.
Guiltless I quit, guilty I set them free. In this sense, acquit is now used.
9. To leave to give up to resign to relinquish as, to quit an office. 10. To pay.
Before that judge that quits each soul his hire. Not used.
11. To forsake to abandon.
Such a superficial way of examining is to quit truth for appearance.
To quit cost, to pay to free from by an equivalent to reimburse as, the cultivation of barren land will not always quit cost.
To quit scores, to make even to clear mutually from demands by mutual equivalents given. We will quit scores marks of charges before we part.
Does not the earth quit scores with all the elements in her noble fruits?
QUIT, a. Free clear discharged from absolved.
The owner of the ox shall be quit. Exodus 21 . This word, though primarily a participle, and never placed before its noun, has properly the sense of an adjective.
Qui tam, L. A qui tam action, in law, is a popular action, in which a man prosecutes an offender for the king or state, as well as for himself.
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [2]
"to free from," is used in the Passive Voice in Luke 12:58 , RV, "to be quit" (AV, "to be delivered"). See Deliver , A, No. 6.
signifies "to make a man of" (aner, "a man"); in the Middle Voice, in 1—Corinthians 16:13 , "to play the man," "quit you like men."
Webster's Dictionary [3]
(1): ( a.) To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate.
(2): ( v.) Released from obligation, charge, penalty, etc.; free; clear; absolved; acquitted.
(3): ( a.) To discharge, as an obligation or duty; to meet and satisfy, as a claim or debt; to make payment for or of; to requite; to repay.
(4): ( a.) To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, or the like; to absolve; to acquit.
(5): ( a.) To carry through; to go through to the end.
(6): ( v. i.) To away; to depart; to stop doing a thing; to cease.
(7): ( n.) Any one of numerous species of small passerine birds native of tropical America. See Banana quit, under Banana, and Guitguit.
(8): ( a.) To meet the claims upon, or expectations entertained of; to conduct; to acquit; - used reflexively.
(9): ( a.) To have done with; to cease from; to stop; hence, to depart from; to leave; to forsake; as, to quit work; to quit the place; to quit jesting.
(10): ( imp. & p. p.) of Quit
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible [4]
QUIT . The adj. ‘quit’ (from Lat. quietus ) means ‘free from obligation,’ as Exodus 21:19 ‘Then shall he that smote him be quit.’ The vb. ‘to quit’ (from Lat. quietare ) is used in AV [Note: Authorized Version.] reflexively quit oneself, i.e. discharge one’s obligations, as 1 Corinthians 16:13 ‘Quit you like men.’
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [5]
kwit : Same derivation as "quiet," so that "to be quit" ( Exodus 21:19 , Exodus 21:28; Joshua 2:20 the King James Version) is "to be relieved of responsibility," נקה , nāḳāh , נקי , nāḳı̄ , "guiltless" (so the Revised Version (British and American) Joshua 2:20 ). Hence, "to quit one's self" means "to be freed by discharging a duty." The phrase in English Versions of the Bible, however, is a gloss for in 1 Samuel 4:9 it is used for היה , hāyāh , "to be," while in 1 Corinthians 16:13 ἀνδρίζομαι , andrı́zomai , means "to behave like a man."
