KJV Dictionary - yearn
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YEARN
YEARN, YERN, v.i. G. The sense is to strain, or stretch forward. We have earnest from the same root.
1. To be strained; to be pained or distressed; to suffer.
Falstaff, he is dead, and we must yearn therefore.
2. Usually, to long; to feel an earnest desire; that is literally, to have a desire or inclination stretching towards the object or end. 1 Kings 3.
Joseph made haste, for his bowels did yearn upon his brother. Genesis 43.
Your mothers heart yearns toward you.
--Anticlus, unable to control, spoke loud the language of his yearning soul.
YEARN, YERN, v.t. To pain; to grieve; to vex.
She laments for it, that it would yearn your heart to see it.
It yearns me not if men my garments wear.
Definition from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.
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