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Lighten [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. li'tn. [from light, the fluid.]

2. To flash; to burst forth or dart, as lightning; to shine with an instantaneous illumination.

3. This dreadful night that thunders, lightens, opens graves, and roars as doth the lion.

4. To shine like lightning.

5. To fall; to light. obsolete

Lighten [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. li'tn.

2. To dissipate darkness; to fill with light; to spread over with light; to illuminate; to enlighten; as, to lighten an apartment with lamps or gas; to lighten the streets.

3. A key of fire ran all along the shore, and lightened all the river with a blaze.

4. To illuminate with knowledge; in a moral sense.

5. A light to lighten the Gentiles. Luke 2:32 .

6. To free from trouble and fill with joy.

7. They looked to him and were lightened. Psalms 34:5 .

8. li'tn. [from light, not heavy.]

9. To make lighter; to reduce in weight; to make less heavy; as, to lighten a ship by unloading; to lighten a load or burden.

10. To alleviate; to make less burdensome or afflictive; as, to lighten the cares of life; to lighten the burden of grief.

11. To cheer; to exhilarate.

12. He lightens my humor with his merry jest.

Lighten [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To descend; to light.

2. To burst forth or dart, as lightning; to shine with, or like, lightning; to display a flash or flashes of lightning; to flash.

3. To grow lighter; to become less dark or lowering; to brighten; to clear, as the sky.

Lighten [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To make light or clear; to light; to illuminate; as, to lighten an apartment with lamps or gas; to lighten the streets.

2. To illuminate with knowledge; to enlighten.

3. To emit or disclose in, or as in, lightning; to flash out, like lightning.

4. To free from trouble and fill with joy.

5. To make lighter, or less heavy; to reduce in weight; to relieve of part of a load or burden; as, to lighten a ship by unloading; to lighten a load or burden.

6. To make less burdensome or afflictive; to alleviate; as, to lighten the cares of life or the burden of grief.

7. To cheer; to exhilarate.

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

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

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Exodus 18:22

And let them judge the people at all seasons: and it shall be, that every great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they shall judge: so shall it be easier for thyself, and they shall bear the burden with thee.

Have these men judge the people at all times. Then they can bring you any major issue, but all minor cases they can judge on their own, so that your load may be lightened as they share it with you.

1 Samuel 6:5

Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and images of your mice that mar the land; and ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.

Make images of your tumors and of the rats that are ravaging the land. Give glory to the God of Israel, and perhaps He will lift His hand from you and your gods and your land.

2 Samuel 22:29

For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.

For You, O LORD, are my lamp; the LORD lights up my darkness.

1 Kings 12:4

Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make thou the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee.

“Your father put a heavy yoke on us. But now you should lighten the burden of your father’s service and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you.”

1 Kings 12:9

And he said unto them, What counsel give ye that we may answer this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke which thy father did put upon us lighter?

He asked them, “What message do you advise that we send back to these people who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Lighten the yoke your father put on us’?”

2 Chronicles 10:4

Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore ease thou somewhat the grievous servitude of thy father, and his heavy yoke that he put upon us, and we will serve thee.

“Your father put a heavy yoke on us. But now you should lighten the burden of your father’s service and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you.”

2 Chronicles 10:9

And he said unto them, What advice give ye that we may return answer to this people, which have spoken to me, saying, Ease somewhat the yoke that thy father did put upon us?

He asked them, “What message do you advise that we send back to these people who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Lighten the yoke your father put on us’?”

Ezra 9:8

And now for a little space grace hath been shewed from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.

But now, for a brief moment, grace has come from the LORD our God to preserve for us a remnant and to give us a stake in His holy place. Even in our bondage, our God has given us new life and light to our eyes.

Psalms 13:3

Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;

Consider me and respond, O LORD my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death,

Psalms 34:5

They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.

Those who look to Him are radiant with joy; their faces shall never be ashamed.

Psalms 77:18

The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.

Your thunder resounded in the whirlwind; the lightning lit up the world; the earth trembled and quaked.

Proverbs 29:13

The poor and the deceitful man meet together: the LORD lighteneth both their eyes.

The poor man and the oppressor have this in common: The LORD gives light to the eyes of both.

Jonah 1:5

Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.

The sailors were afraid, and each cried out to his own god. And they threw the ship’s cargo into the sea to lighten the load. But Jonah had gone down to the lowest part of the vessel, where he lay down and fell into a deep sleep.

Luke 2:32

A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.

a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to Your people Israel.”

Luke 11:46

And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.

“Woe to you as well, experts in the law!” He replied. “You weigh men down with heavy burdens, but you yourselves will not lift a finger to lighten their load.

Luke 17:24

For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.

For just as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other, so will be the Son of Man in His day.

Acts 27:18

And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next day they lightened the ship;

We were tossed so violently that the next day the men began to jettison the cargo.

Acts 27:38

And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, and cast out the wheat into the sea.

After the men had eaten their fill, they lightened the ship by throwing the grain into the sea.

Revelation 18:1

And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.

After this I saw another angel descending from heaven with great authority, and the earth was illuminated by his glory.

Revelation 21:23

And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.

And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, because the glory of God illuminates the city, and the Lamb is its lamp.