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Heavily [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. hev'ily. [from heavy.] With great weight; as, to bear heavily on a thing; to be heavily loaded.

2. With great weight of grief; grievously; afflictively. When calamities fall heavily on the christian, he finds consolation in Christ.

3. Sorrowfully; with grief.

4. I came hither to transport the tidings,

5. Which I have heavily borne.

6. With an air of sorrow or dejection.

7. Why looks your Grace so heavily to day?

8. With weight; oppressively. Taxes sometimes bear heavily on the people.

9. Slowly and laboriously; with difficulty; as, to move heavily

10. So they drove them heavily Exodus 14:25 .

Heavily [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. In a heavy manner; with great weight; as, to bear heavily on a thing; to be heavily loaded.

2. As if burdened with a great weight; slowly and laboriously; with difficulty; hence, in a slow, difficult, or suffering manner; sorrowfully.

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3 KJV and 4 BSB verses contain “heavily”

Exodus 14:25

And took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily: so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the LORD fighteth for them against the Egyptians.

He caused their chariot wheels to wobble, so that they had difficulty driving. “Let us flee from the Israelites,” said the Egyptians, “for the LORD is fighting for them against Egypt!”

Nehemiah 5:15

But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.

The governors before me had heavily burdened the people, taking from them bread and wine plus forty shekels of silver. Their servants also oppressed the people, but I did not do this because of my fear of God.

Psalms 35:14

I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.

I paced about as for my friend or brother; I was bowed down with grief, like one mourning for his mother.

Psalms 88:7

Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.

Your wrath weighs heavily upon me; all Your waves have submerged me. Selah

Ecclesiastes 6:1

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:

There is another evil I have seen under the sun, and it weighs heavily upon mankind:

Ecclesiastes 8:6

Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him.

For there is a right time and procedure to every purpose, though a man’s misery weighs heavily upon him.

Isaiah 47:6

I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.

I was angry with My people; I profaned My heritage, and I placed them under your control. You showed them no mercy; even on the elderly you laid a most heavy yoke.