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Crime
King James Dictionary
or CRIME, n. L., Gr. , to separate, to judge, to decree, to condemn.
1. An act which violates a law, divine or human an act which violates a rule of moral duty an offense against the laws of right, prescribed by God or man, or against any rule of duty plainly implied in those laws. A crime may consist in omission or neglect, as well as in commission, or positive transgression. The commander of a fortress who suffers the enemy to take possession by neglect, is as really criminal, as one who voluntarily opens the gates without resistance.
But in a more common and restricted sense, a crime denotes an offense, or violation of public law, of a deeper and more atrocious nature a public wrong or a violation of the commands of God, and the offenses against the laws made to preserve the public rights as treason, murder, robbery, theft, arson, &c. The minor wrongs committed against individuals or private rights, are denominated trespasses, and the minor wrongs against public rights are called misdemeanors. Crimes and misdemeanors are punishable by indictment, information or public prosecution trespasses or private injuries, at the suit of the individuals injured. But in many cases an act is considered both as a public offense and a trespass, and is punishable both by the public and the individual injured.
2. Any great wickedness iniquity wrong.
No crime was thing, if tis no crime to love.
Capital crime, a crime punishable with death.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Entry for 'Crime'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/c/crime.html.
