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Crave [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To ask with earnestness or importunity; to beseech; to implore; to ask with submission or humility, as a dependent; to beg; to entreat.

2. As for my nobler friends, I crave their pardons.

3. Joseph--went in boldly to Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus. Mark 15:43 .

4. To call for, as a gratification; to long for; to require or demand, as a passion or appetite; as, the stomach or appetite craves food.

5. Sometimes intransitively, with for before the thing sought; as, I crave for mercy.

Crave [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To desire strongly; to feel an insatiable longing; as, a craving appetite.

Crave [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To ask with earnestness or importunity; to ask with submission or humility; to beg; to entreat; to beseech; to implore.

2. To call for, as a gratification; to long for; hence, to require or demand; as, the stomach craves food.

Craved [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Asked for with earnestness; implored; entreated; longed for; required.

Craved [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Craven [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Cowardly; fainthearted; spiritless.

Craven [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A recreant; a coward; a weak-hearted, spiritless fellow. See Recreant, n.

Craven [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To make recreant, weak, spiritless, or cowardly.

Cravened [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Cravening [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Cravent [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. CRAVEN, CRAVENT CRAVANT, noun

2. A word of obloquy, used formerly by one vanquished in trial by battle, and yielding to the conqueror. Hence, a recreant; a coward; a weak-hearted spiritless fellow.

3. A vanquished, dispirited cock.

Cravent [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To make recreant, weak or cowardly.

Craver [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One who craves or begs.

Craver [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who craves or begs.

King James Bible KJV Bible

Berean Standard Bible BSB Bible

2 KJV and 15 BSB verses contain “Crave”

Numbers 11:34

And he called the name of that place Kibroth-hattaavah: because there they buried the people that lusted.

So they called that place Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had craved other food.

Deuteronomy 12:20

When the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.

When the LORD your God expands your territory as He has promised, and you crave meat and say, “I want to eat meat,” you may eat it whenever you want.

Psalms 78:18

And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.

They willfully tested God by demanding the food they craved.

Psalms 78:29

So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;

So they ate and were well filled, for He gave them what they craved.

Psalms 106:14

But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.

They craved intensely in the wilderness and tested God in the desert.

Proverbs 13:4

The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.

The slacker craves yet has nothing, but the soul of the diligent is fully satisfied.

Proverbs 16:26

He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.

A worker’s appetite works for him because his hunger drives him onward.

Proverbs 21:10

The soul of the wicked desireth evil: his neighbour findeth no favour in his eyes.

The soul of the wicked man craves evil; his neighbor finds no favor in his eyes.

Proverbs 23:3

Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.

Do not crave his delicacies, for that food is deceptive.

Proverbs 23:6

Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:

Do not eat the bread of a stingy man, and do not crave his delicacies;

Proverbs 31:4

It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:

It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to crave strong drink,

Micah 7:1

Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit.

Woe is me! For I am like one gathering summer fruit at the gleaning of the vineyard; there is no cluster to eat, no early fig that I crave.

Mark 15:43

Joseph of Arimathaea, an honourable counsellor, which also waited for the kingdom of God, came, and went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus.

Joseph of Arimathea, a prominent Council member who himself was waiting for the kingdom of God, boldly went to Pilate to ask for the body of Jesus.

Galatians 5:17

For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

For the flesh craves what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are opposed to each other, so that you do not do what you want.

2 Timothy 4:8

Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.

From now on there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day—and not only to me, but to all who crave His appearing.

James 4:2

Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.

You crave what you do not have; you kill and covet, but are unable to obtain it. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask.

1 Peter 2:2

As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:

Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,