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Interpret [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To explain the meaning or words to a person who does not understand them; to expound; to translate unintelligible words into intelligible ones; as, to interpret the Hebrew language to an Englishman.

2. --Immanuel, which being interpreted, signified, God with us. Matthew 1:23 .

3. To explain or unfold the meaning of predictions, vision, dreams or enigmas; to expound and lay open what is concealed from the understanding; as, Joseph interpreted the dream of Pharaoh.

4. To decipher.

5. To explain something not understood; as, to interpret looks or signs.

6. To define; to explain words by other words in the same language.

Interpret [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To act as an interpreter.

Interpret [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To explain or tell the meaning of; to expound; to translate orally into intelligible or familiar language or terms; to decipher; to define; -- applied esp. to language, but also to dreams, signs, conduct, mysteries, etc.; as, to interpret the Hebrew language to an Englishman; to interpret an Indian speech.

2. To apprehend and represent by means of art; to show by illustrative representation; as, an actor interprets the character of Hamlet; a musician interprets a sonata; an artist interprets a landscape.

Interpretable [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

That may be interpreted or explained.

Interpretable [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Admitting of interpretation; capable of being interpreted or explained.

Interpretament [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Interpretation.

Interpretation [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The act of interpreting; explanation of unintelligible words in language that is intelligible. interpretation is the design of translation.

2. The act of expounding or unfolding what is not understood or not obvious; as the interpretation of dreams and prophecy.

3. Look how we can, or sad or merrily,

4. Interpretation will misquote our looks.

5. The sense given by an interpreter; exposition. We sometimes find various interpretations of the same passage of Scripture and other ancient writings.

6. The power of explaining.

Interpretation [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of interpreting; explanation of what is obscure; translation; version; construction; as, the interpretation of a foreign language, of a dream, or of an enigma.

2. The sense given by an interpreter; exposition or explanation given; meaning; as, commentators give various interpretations of the same passage of Scripture.

3. The power or explaining.

4. An artist's way of expressing his thought or embodying his conception of nature.

5. The act or process of applying general principles or formulae to the explanation of the results obtained in special cases.

Interpretative [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Collected or known by interpretation.

2. An interpretative siding with heretics.

3. Containing explanation.

Interpretative [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Designed or fitted to interpret; explanatory.

2. According to interpretation; constructive.

Interpretatively [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

As may be collected by interpretation.

Interpretatively [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

By interpretation.

Interpreted [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Explained; expounded.

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

of Interpret

Interpreter [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. One that explains or expounds; an expositor; as an interpreter of the Scriptures.

2. A translator; one who renders the words of one language in words of corresponding signification in another.

Interpreter [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who or that which interprets, explains, or expounds; a translator; especially, a person who translates orally between two parties.

Interpreting [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Explaining; expounding; translating.

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

of Interpret

Interpretive [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Interpretative.

Discovery Roget’s Thesaurus §480a

N. discovery, detection, disenchantment, ascertainment, disclosure, find, revelation, trover

V. discover, find, determine, evolve, learn, fix upon, pick up, find out, trace out, make out, hunt out, fish out, worm out, ferret out, root out, fathom, bring out, draw out, educe, elicit, bring to light, dig out, grub up, fish up, unearth, disinter, solve, resolve, elucidate, unriddle, unravel, unlock, crack, crack open, pick up, open the lock, find a clue, find clew a to, find the key to the riddle, interpret, disclose, trace, get at, hit it, have it, lay one's finger, lay one's hands upon, spot, get at the truth, arrive at the truth, put the saddle on the right horse, hit the right nail on the head, be near the truth, be warm, get warmer, burn, smoke, scent, sniff, catch a whiff of, smell a rat, open the eyes to, see through, see daylight, see in its true colors, see the cloven foot, detect, catch, catch tripping, pitch upon, fall upon, light upon, hit upon, stumble upon, pop upon, come across, come onto, meet with, meet up with, fall in with, recognize, realize, verify, make certain of, identify

Int. eureka, aha, i've got it

Interpretation Roget’s Thesaurus §522

N. interpretation, definition, explanation, explication, solution, answer, rationale, plain interpretation, simple interpretation, strict interpretation, meaning, translation, rendering, rendition, redition, literal translation, free translation, key, secret, clew, clavis, crib, pony, trot, exegesis, expounding, exposition, hermeneutics, comment, commentary, inference, illustration, exemplification, gloss, annotation, scholium, note, elucidation, dilucidation|, eclaircissement, mot d'enigme, symptomatology, semiology, semeiology, semiotics, metoposcopy, physiognomy, paleography, oneirology acception, acceptation, acceptance, light, reading, lection, construction, version, equivalent, equivalent meaning, synonym, paraphrase, metaphrase, convertible terms, apposition, dictionary, polyglot

V. interpret, explain, define, construe, translate, render, do into, turn into, transfuse the sense of, find out the meaning of, read, spell out, make out, decipher, unravel, disentangle, find the key of, enucleate, resolve, solve, read between the lines, account for, find the cause, tell the cause of, throw light upon, shed light upon, shed new light upon, shed fresh light upon, clear up, clarify, elucidate, illustrate, exemplify, unfold, expound, comment upon, annotate, popularize, take in a particular sense, understand in a particular sense, receive in a particular sense, accept in a particular sense, understand by, put a construction on, be given to understand

Adj. explanatory, expository, explicative, explicatory, exegetical, construable, polyglot, literal, paraphrastic, metaphrastic, consignificative, synonymous, equivalent

Adv. in explanation, that is to say, id est, videlicet, to wit, namely, in other words, literally, strictly speaking, in plain, in plainer terms, in plainer words, in plainer english, more simply

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Genesis 40:5

And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, which were bound in the prison.

both of these men—the Egyptian king’s cupbearer and baker, who were being held in the prison—had a dream on the same night, and each dream had its own meaning.

Genesis 40:8

And they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of it. And Joseph said unto them, Do not interpretations belong to God? tell me them, I pray you.

“We both had dreams,” they replied, “but there is no one to interpret them.” Then Joseph said to them, “Don’t interpretations belong to God? Tell me your dreams.”

Genesis 40:12

And Joseph said unto him, This is the interpretation of it: The three branches are three days:

Joseph replied, “This is the interpretation: The three branches are three days.

Genesis 40:16

When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said unto Joseph, I also was in my dream, and, behold, I had three white baskets on my head:

When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was favorable, he said to Joseph, “I too had a dream: There were three baskets of white bread on my head.

Genesis 40:18

And Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation thereof: The three baskets are three days:

Joseph replied, “This is the interpretation: The three baskets are three days.

Genesis 40:22

But he hanged the chief baker: as Joseph had interpreted to them.

But Pharaoh hanged the chief baker, just as Joseph had described to them in his interpretation.

Genesis 41:8

And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his dream; but there was none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh.

In the morning his spirit was troubled, so he summoned all the magicians and wise men of Egypt. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but no one could interpret them for him.

Genesis 41:11

And we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; we dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.

One night both the chief baker and I had dreams, and each dream had its own meaning.

Genesis 41:12

And there was there with us a young man, an Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard; and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams; to each man according to his dream he did interpret.

Now a young Hebrew was there with us, a servant of the captain of the guard. We told him our dreams and he interpreted them for us individually.

Genesis 41:13

And it came to pass, as he interpreted to us, so it was; me he restored unto mine office, and him he hanged.

And it happened to us just as he had interpreted: I was restored to my position, and the other man was hanged.”

Genesis 41:15

And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can interpret it: and I have heard say of thee, that thou canst understand a dream to interpret it.

Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I had a dream, and no one can interpret it. But I have heard it said of you that when you hear a dream you can interpret it.”

Genesis 42:23

And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spake unto them by an interpreter.

They did not realize that Joseph understood them, since there was an interpreter between them.

Deuteronomy 18:10

There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,

Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, practices divination or conjury, interprets omens, practices sorcery,

Judges 7:15

And it was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he worshipped, and returned into the host of Israel, and said, Arise; for the LORD hath delivered into your hand the host of Midian.

When Gideon heard the dream and its interpretation, he bowed in worship. He returned to the camp of Israel and said, “Get up, for the LORD has delivered the camp of Midian into your hand.”

Ezra 4:7

And in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their companions, unto Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in the Syrian tongue, and interpreted in the Syrian tongue.

And in the days of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his associates wrote a letter to Artaxerxes. It was written in Aramaic and then translated.

Job 33:23

If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness:

Yet if there is a messenger on his side, one mediator in a thousand, to tell a man what is right for him,

Proverbs 1:6

To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.

by understanding the proverbs and parables, the sayings and riddles of the wise.

Ecclesiastes 8:1

Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? a man’s wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness of his face shall be changed.

Who is like the wise man? Who knows the interpretation of a matter? A man’s wisdom brightens his face, and the sternness of his face is changed.

Jeremiah 27:9

Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon:

But as for you, do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your interpreters of dreams, your mediums, or your sorcerers who declare, ‘You will not serve the king of Babylon.’

Daniel 2:4

Then spake the Chaldeans to the king in Syriack, O king, live for ever: tell thy servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation.

Then the astrologers answered the king in Aramaic, “O king, may you live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will give the interpretation.”