T`ASK, n.
1. Business imposed by another, often a definite quantity or amount of labor. Each man has his task. When he has performed his task, his time is his own. Exodus 5
2. Business employment.
His mental powers were equal to greater tasks.
3. Burdensome employment.
To take to task, to reprove to reprimand as, to take one to task for idleness.
T`ASK,
1. To impose a task to assign to one a definite amount of business or labor.
2. To burden with some employment to require to perform.
There task thy maids, and exercise the loom.
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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