unto : Idioms & Phrases


To go in tounto

  • . (a) To enter the presence of. Esther iv. 16.(b) To have sexual intercourse with. Script.
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To lay unto

  • . (a) Same as To lay to (above). (b) To put before . Hos. xi. 4.
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To look tounto

  • . (a) To watch; to take care of. "Look well to thy herds." Prov. xxvii. 23 . (b) To resort to with expectation of receiving something; to expect to receive from; as, the creditor may look to surety for payment. "Look unto me, and be ye saved." Is. xlv. 22.
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To put the hand to or unto

  • . (a) To take hold of, as of an instrument of labor; as, to put the hand to the plow; hence, to engage in (any task or affair); as, to put one's hand to the work. (b) To take or seize, as in theft . "He hath not put his hand unto his neighbor's goods." Ex. xxii. 11.
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To put the hand unto

  • to steal. Ex. xxii. 8.
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To trust to ∨ unto

  • to depend on; to have confidence in; to rely on.
    They trusted unto the liers in wait. Judges xx. 36.
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