INVENT', L. invenio, inventum in and venio, to come literally, to come to, to fall on, to meet, Eng. to find.
1. To find out something new to devise something not before known to contrive and produce something that did not before exist as, to invent a new instrument of music to invent a machine for spinning to invent gunpowder. See Invention.
2. To forge to fabricate to contrive falsely as, to invent falsehoods.
3. To feign to frame by the imagination as, to invent the machinery of a poem.
4. To light on to meet with. This is the literal sense, but not now used.
The King James Bible has stood its ground for nearly 400 years. However, during that time the English language has changed, and with it the meanings of some words it used. Here are more than 6,500 words whose definitions have changed since 1611.Wikipedia
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