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Feign [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. fane. [Latin fingo. The Latin forms fictum, fictus, whence figura, figure, also fucus.]

2. To invent or imagine; to form an idea or conception of something not real.

3. There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart. Nehemiah 6:8 .

4. To make a show of; to pretend; to assume a false appearance; to counterfeit.

5. I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner. 2 Samuel 14:2 .

6. She feigns a laugh.

7. To represent falsely; to pretend; to form and relate a fictitious tale.

8. The poet did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods.

9. To dissemble; to conceal. obsolete

Feign [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To give a mental existence to, as to something not real or actual; to imagine; to invent; hence, to pretend; to form and relate as if true.

2. To represent by a false appearance of; to pretend; to counterfeit; as, to feign a sickness.

3. To dissemble; to conceal.

Feigned [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Invented; devised; imagined; assumed.

Feigned [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Not real or genuine; pretended; counterfeit; insincere; false.

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

of Feign

Feignedly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In fiction; in pretense; not really.

Feignedness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Fiction; pretense; deceit.

Feigner [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One who feigns; an inventor; a deviser of fiction.

Feigner [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who feigns or pretends.

Feigning [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A false appearance; artful contrivance.

Feigning [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Imagining; inventing; pretending; making a false show.

Feigning [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

That feigns; insincere; not genuine; false.

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

of Feign

Feigningly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

With false appearance.

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10 KJV and 3 BSB verses contain “Feign”

1 Samuel 21:13

And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.

So he changed his behavior before them and feigned madness in their hands; he scratched on the doors of the gate and let his saliva run down his beard.

2 Samuel 13:6

So Amnon lay down, and made himself sick: and when the king was come to see him, Amnon said unto the king, I pray thee, let Tamar my sister come, and make me a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat at her hand.

So Amnon lay down and feigned illness. When the king came to see him, Amnon said, “Please let my sister Tamar come and make a couple of cakes in my sight, so that I may eat from her hand.”

2 Samuel 14:2

And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead:

So Joab sent to Tekoa to bring a wise woman from there. He told her, “Please pretend to be a mourner; put on clothes for mourning and do not anoint yourself with oil. Act like a woman who has mourned for the dead a long time.

1 Kings 14:5

And the LORD said unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh to ask a thing of thee for her son; for he is sick: thus and thus shalt thou say unto her: for it shall be, when she cometh in, that she shall feign herself to be another woman.

But the LORD had said to Ahijah, “Behold, the wife of Jeroboam is coming to ask you about her son, for he is ill. You are to say such and such to her, because when she arrives, she will be disguised.”

1 Kings 14:6

And it was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet as she came in at the door, that he said, Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam; why feignest thou thyself to be another? for I am sent to thee with heavy tidings.

So when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet entering the door, he said, “Come in, wife of Jeroboam! Why are you disguised? For I have been sent to you with bad news.

Nehemiah 6:8

Then I sent unto him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.

Then I sent him this reply: “There is nothing to these rumors you are spreading; you are inventing them in your own mind.”

Psalms 17:1

Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.

Hear, O LORD, my righteous plea; listen to my cry. Give ear to my prayer— it comes from lips free of deceit.

Psalms 81:15

The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever.

Those who hate the LORD would feign obedience, and their doom would last forever.

Jeremiah 3:10

And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD.

Yet in spite of all this, her unfaithful sister Judah did not return to Me with all her heart, but only in pretense,” declares the LORD.

Luke 20:20

And they watched him, and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words, that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor.

So they watched Him closely and sent spies who pretended to be sincere. They were hoping to catch Him in His words in order to hand Him over to the rule and authority of the governor.

2 Peter 2:3

And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.

In their greed, these false teachers will exploit you with deceptive words. The longstanding verdict against them remains in force, and their destruction does not sleep.

2 Esdras 8:28

Think not upon those that have walked feignedly before thee: but remember them, which according to thy will have known thy fear.