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Reck [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To care; to mind; to rate at much; as we say, to reckon much of; followed by of. obsolete

2. Thou's but a lazy loorde, and recks much of thy swinke.

3. I reck as little what betideth me, as much I wish all good befortune you.

4. Of night or loneliness it recks me not.

Reck [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To heed; to regard; to care for.

2. This son of mine not recking danger.

3. [This verb is obsolete unless in poetry. We observe the primary sense and application in the phrase, 'it recks me not, ' that is, it does not strain or distress me; it does not rack my mind. To reck danger is a derivative form of expression, and a deviation from the proper sense of the verb.]

Reck [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To make account; to take heed; to care; to mind; -- often followed by of.

Reck [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To make account of; to care for; to heed; to regard.

2. To concern; -- used impersonally.

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

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

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Reckless [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Careless; heedless; mindless.

2. I made the king reckless as them diligent.

Reckless [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Inattentive to duty; careless; neglectful; indifferent.

2. Rashly negligent; utterly careless or heedless.

Recklessness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Heedlessness; carelessness; negligence.

2. [These words, formerly disused, have been recently revived.]

Reckling [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Needing care; weak; feeble; as, a reckling child.

Reckling [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A weak child or animal.

Reckon [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To reason with one's self and conclude from arguments.

2. I reckoned till morning, that as a lion, so will he break all my bones. Isaiah 38:13 .

3. To charge to account; with on.

4. I call posterity into the debt, and reckon on her head.

5. To pay a penalty; to be answerable; with for.

6. If they fall in their bounden duty, they shall reckon for it one day.

7. To reckon with, to state an account with another, compare it with his account, ascertain the amount of each and the balance which one owes to the other. In this manner the countrymen of New England who have mutual dealings, reckon with each other at the end of each year, or as often as they think fit.

8. After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth with them. Matthew 25:19 .

9. To call to punishment.

10. God suffers the most grievous sins of particular persons to go unpunished in this world, because his justice will have another opportunity to meet and reckon with them.

11. To reckon on or upon, to lay stress or dependence on. He reckons on the support of his friends.

Reckon [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. rek'n. [Latin rego, rectus, whence regnum, regno, Eng. to reign and right.]

2. To count; to number; that is, to tell the particulars.

3. The priest shall reckon to him the money, according to the years that remain, even to the year of jubilee, and it shall be abated. Leviticus 27:18 .

4. I reckoned above two hundred and fifty on the outside of the church.

5. To esteem; to account; to repute. Romans 8:18 .

6. For him I reckon not in high estate.

7. To repute; to set in the number or rank of.

8. He was reckoned among the transgressors. Luke 22:37 .

9. To assign in an account. rom. 4.

10. to compute; to calculate.

Reckon [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.

2. To come to an accounting; to make up accounts; to settle; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty.

Reckon [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.

2. To count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation; to account; to esteem; to repute.

3. To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.

4. To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause; as, I reckon he won't try that again.

Reckoned [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

rek'nd. Counted; numbered; esteemed; reputed; computed; set or assigned to in account.

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

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Reckoner [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. rek'ner. One who reckons or computes.

2. RECKONER s without their host must reckon twice.

Reckoner [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who reckons or computes; also, a book of calculations, tables, etc., to assist in reckoning.

Reckoning [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The act of counting or computing; calculation.

2. An account of time.

3. A statement of accounts with another; a statement and comparison of accounts mutually for adjustment; as in the proverb, 'short reckonings make long friends.'

4. The way to make reckonings even, is to make them often.

5. The charges or account made by a host.

6. A coin would have a nobler use than to pay a reckoning

7. Account taken. 2 Kings 22:7 .

8. Esteem; account; estimation.

9. You make no further reckoning of the beauty, than of an outward fading benefit nature bestowed.

10. In navigation, an account of the ship's course and distance calculated from the log-board without the aid of celestial observation. This account from the log-board, is called the dead reckoning

Reckoning [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

rek'ning. Counting; computing; esteeming; reputing; stating an account mutually.

Reckoning [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of one who reckons, counts, or computes; the result of reckoning or counting; calculation.

2. An account of time

3. Adjustment of claims and accounts; settlement of obligations, liabilities, etc.

4. The charge or account made by a host at an inn.

5. Esteem; account; estimation.

6. The calculation of a ship's position, either from astronomical observations, or from the record of the courses steered and distances sailed as shown by compass and log, -- in the latter case called dead reckoning (see under Dead); -- also used for dead reckoning in contradistinction to observation.

7. The position of a ship as determined by calculation.

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

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Reckoning-book [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

a book in which money received and expended is entered.

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Genesis 21:12

And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.

But God said to Abraham, “Do not be distressed about the boy and your maidservant. Listen to everything that Sarah tells you, for through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.

Genesis 48:5

And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.

And now your two sons born to you in Egypt before I came to you here shall be reckoned as mine; Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine, just as Reuben and Simeon are mine.

Leviticus 25:50

And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubile: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years, according to the time of an hired servant shall it be with him.

He and his purchaser will then count the time from the year he sold himself up to the Year of Jubilee. The price of his sale will be determined by the number of years, based on the daily wages of a hired hand.

Leviticus 27:18

But if he sanctify his field after the jubile, then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain, even unto the year of the jubile, and it shall be abated from thy estimation.

But if he consecrates his field after the Jubilee, the priest is to calculate the price in proportion to the years left until the next Year of Jubilee, so that your valuation will be reduced.

Leviticus 27:23

Then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy estimation, even unto the year of the jubile: and he shall give thine estimation in that day, as a holy thing unto the LORD.

then the priest shall calculate for him the value up to the Year of Jubilee, and the man shall pay the assessed value on that day as a sacred offering to the LORD.

Numbers 4:32

And the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords, with all their instruments, and with all their service: and by name ye shall reckon the instruments of the charge of their burden.

and the posts of the surrounding courtyard with their bases, tent pegs, and ropes, including all their equipment and everything related to their use. You shall assign by name the items that they are responsible to carry.

Numbers 18:27

And this your heave offering shall be reckoned unto you, as though it were the corn of the threshingfloor, and as the fulness of the winepress.

Your offering will be reckoned to you as grain from the threshing floor or juice from the winepress.

Numbers 18:30

Therefore thou shalt say unto them, When ye have heaved the best thereof from it, then it shall be counted unto the Levites as the increase of the threshingfloor, and as the increase of the winepress.

Therefore say to the Levites, ‘When you have presented the best part, it will be reckoned to you as the produce of the threshing floor or winepress.

Numbers 23:9

For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.

For I see them from atop the rocky cliffs, and I watch them from the hills. Behold, a people dwelling apart, not reckoning themselves among the nations.

Judges 9:4

And they gave him threescore and ten pieces of silver out of the house of Baal-berith, wherewith Abimelech hired vain and light persons, which followed him.

So they gave him seventy shekels of silver from the temple of Baal-berith, with which Abimelech hired some worthless and reckless men to follow him.

2 Samuel 4:2

And Saul’s son had two men that were captains of bands: the name of the one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon a Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin: (for Beeroth also was reckoned to Benjamin:

Saul’s son had two men who were leaders of raiding parties. One was named Baanah and the other Rechab; they were sons of Rimmon the Beerothite of the tribe of Benjamin—Beeroth is considered part of Benjamin,

2 Kings 12:15

Moreover they reckoned not with the men, into whose hand they delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen: for they dealt faithfully.

No accounting was required from the men who received the money to pay the workmen, because they acted with integrity.

2 Kings 22:7

Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand, because they dealt faithfully.

But they need not account for the money put into their hands, since they work with integrity.”

1 Chronicles 5:1

Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for he was the firstborn; but, forasmuch as he defiled his father’s bed, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the son of Israel: and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright.

These were the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel. Though he was the firstborn, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph son of Israel, because Reuben defiled his father’s bed. So he is not reckoned according to birthright.

1 Chronicles 5:7

And his brethren by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was reckoned, were the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah,

Beerah was a leader of the Reubenites. His relatives by their clans are recorded in their genealogy:

1 Chronicles 5:17

All these were reckoned by genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.

All of them were reckoned in the genealogies during the reigns of Jotham king of Judah and Jeroboam king of Israel.

1 Chronicles 7:5

And their brethren among all the families of Issachar were valiant men of might, reckoned in all by their genealogies fourscore and seven thousand.

Their kinsmen belonging to all the families of Issachar who were mighty men of valor totaled 87,000, as listed in their genealogies.

1 Chronicles 7:7

And the sons of Bela; Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Uzziel, and Jerimoth, and Iri, five; heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valour; and were reckoned by their genealogies twenty and two thousand and thirty and four.

The sons of Bela: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri, heads of their families—five in all. There were 22,034 mighty men of valor listed in their genealogies.

1 Chronicles 9:1

So all Israel were reckoned by genealogies; and, behold, they were written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah, who were carried away to Babylon for their transgression.

So all Israel was recorded in the genealogies written in the Book of the Kings of Israel. But Judah was exiled to Babylon because of their unfaithfulness.

1 Chronicles 9:22

All these which were chosen to be porters in the gates were two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by their genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did ordain in their set office.

The number of those chosen to be gatekeepers at the thresholds was 212. They were registered by genealogy in their villages. David and Samuel the seer had appointed them to their positions of trust.