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Severe [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Rigid; harsh; not mild or indulgent; as severe words; severe treatment; severe wrath.

2. Sharp; hard rigorous.

3. Let your zeal-be more severe against thyself than against others. Taylor .

4. Very strict; or sometimes perhaps, unreasonably strict or exact; giving no indulgence to faults or errors; as severe government; severe criticism.

5. Rigorous, perhaps cruel; as severe punishment; severe justice.

6. Grave; sober; sedate to an extreme; opposed to cheerful, gay, light, lively .

7. Your looks must alter, as your subject does,

8. From kind to fierce, from wanton to severe . Waller .

9. Rigidly exact; strictly methodical; not lax or airy. I will not venture on on so nice a subject with my severe style.

10. Sharp; afflictive; distressing; violent; as severe pain, anguish, torture, etc.

11. Sharp; biting; extreme; as severe cold.

12. Close; concise; not luxuriant.

13. The Latin, a most severe and compendious language- Dryden .

14. Exact; critical; nice; as a sever test.

Severe [Superlative] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Serious in feeeling or manner; sedate; grave; austere; not light, lively, or cheerful.

2. Very strict in judgment, discipline, or government; harsh; not mild or indulgent; rigorous; as, severe criticism; severe punishment.

3. Rigidly methodical, or adherent to rule or principle; exactly conformed to a standard; not allowing or employing unneccessary ornament, amplification, etc.; strict; -- said of style, argument, etc.

4. Sharp; afflictive; distressing; violent; extreme; as, severe pain, anguish, fortune; severe cold.

5. Difficult to be endured; exact; critical; rigorous; as, a severe test.

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

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Severely [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Harshly; sharply; as, the chide one severely .

2. Strictly; rigorously; as, to judge one severely .

3. To be or fondly or severely kind. Savage .

4. With extreme rigor; as, to punish severely .

5. Painfully; effectively; greatly; as, to be severely afflicted the gout.

6. Fiercely; ferociously.

7. More formidable Hydra stands within,

8. Whose jaws with iron teeth severely grin. Dryden .

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5 KJV and 49 BSB verses contain “severe” — showing the first 20. Show all 54 verses (searchable)

Genesis 12:10

And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.

Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.

Genesis 12:17

And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram’s wife.

The LORD, however, afflicted Pharaoh and his household with severe plagues because of Abram’s wife Sarai.

Genesis 35:17

And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also.

During her severe labor, the midwife said to her, “Do not be afraid, for you are having another son.”

Genesis 41:31

And the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine following; for it shall be very grievous.

The abundance in the land will not be remembered, since the famine that follows it will be so severe.

Genesis 41:56

And the famine was over all the face of the earth: and Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt.

When the famine had spread over all the land, Joseph opened up all the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians; for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.

Genesis 41:57

And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy corn; because that the famine was so sore in all lands.

And every nation came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all the earth.

Genesis 43:1

And the famine was sore in the land.

Now the famine was still severe in the land.

Genesis 47:4

They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come; for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.

Then they said to Pharaoh, “We have come to live in the land for a time, because there is no pasture for the flocks of your servants, since the famine in the land of Canaan has been severe. So now, please allow your servants to settle in the land of Goshen.”

Genesis 47:13

And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.

There was no food, however, in all that region, because the famine was so severe; the lands of Egypt and Canaan had been exhausted by the famine.

Genesis 47:20

And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh’s.

So Joseph acquired for Pharaoh all the land in Egypt; the Egyptians, one and all, sold their fields because the famine was so severe upon them. The land became Pharaoh’s,

Exodus 3:9

Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.

And now the cry of the Israelites has reached Me, and I have seen how severely the Egyptians are oppressing them.

Exodus 9:3

Behold, the hand of the LORD is upon thy cattle which is in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep: there shall be a very grievous murrain.

then the hand of the LORD will bring a severe plague on your livestock in the field—on your horses, donkeys, camels, herds, and flocks.

Exodus 9:24

So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.

The hail fell and the lightning continued flashing through it. The hail was so severe that nothing like it had ever been seen in all the land of Egypt from the time it became a nation.

Exodus 10:2

And that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son’s son, what things I have wrought in Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that ye may know how that I am the LORD.

and that you may tell your children and grandchildren how severely I dealt with the Egyptians when I performed miraculous signs among them, so that all of you may know that I am the LORD.”

Leviticus 20:26

And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the LORD am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine.

You are to be holy to Me because I, the LORD, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be My own.

Numbers 11:33

And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague.

But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of the LORD burned against the people, and the LORD struck them with a severe plague.

Deuteronomy 4:41

Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan toward the sunrising;

Then Moses set aside three cities across the Jordan to the east

Deuteronomy 23:1

He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.

No man with crushed or severed genitals may enter the assembly of the LORD.

Deuteronomy 28:59

Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.

He will bring upon you and your descendants extraordinary disasters, severe and lasting plagues, and terrible and chronic sicknesses.

Judges 4:11

Now Heber the Kenite, which was of the children of Hobab the father in law of Moses, had severed himself from the Kenites, and pitched his tent unto the plain of Zaanaim, which is by Kedesh.

Now Heber the Kenite had moved away from the Kenites, the descendants of Hobab the father-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent by the great tree of Zaanannim, which was near Kedesh.