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Definitions: Welfare |
WelfareAdjective1. Of or relating to a welfare state. Noun1. Governmental provision of economic assistance to persons in need. 2. Something that aids or promotes well-being: "for the common good". 3. A contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous; "the town was finally on the upbeat after our recent troubles". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "welfare" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Note: Welfare \Wel"fare`\, noun. [Well fare to go, to proceed, to happen.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Public Administration | The maintenance of members of a group or community in a state of(esp. physical and economic)well-being, esp. as provided for and organized by legislation or social effort. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: WelfareSynonyms: welfare(a) (adj), welfare-statist (adj), welfarist (adj), benefit (n), eudaemonia (n), eudaimonia (n), social welfare (n), upbeat (n), wellbeing (n), well-being (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: ill-being (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Petitioner | Pauper, homeless person, hobo, bum, tramp, bindle stiff, bo, knight of the road (poverty); hippie, flower child; hard core unemployed; welfare client, welfare case. |
Prosperity | Noun: prosperity, welfare, well-being; affluence; (wealth); success; thrift, roaring trade; good fortune, smiles of fortune; blessings, godsend. |
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Screenplays | Your little goat herder makes Darryl look like a welfare case! (Coming to America; writing credit: David Sheffield) I have to put my family's welfare on the line here, my friend! (The Insider; writing credit: Eric Roth) Too bad you're not on welfare, I'd give you a freebie. (Magnum Force; writing credit: Harry Julian Fink; Rita M. Fink) Get off welfare! (Lean on Me; writing credit: Michael Schiffer) I'm not quitting my job. How am I supposed to eat? Go down to the welfare office and stand in the Superhero line? (The Greatest American Hero; writing credit: Morris Gleitzman) | |
Lyrics | Ya always wuz commited, a poor single mother on welfare, (Dear Mama; performing artist: 2Pac) Of a welfare christmas (I will buy you a new life; performing artist: Everclear) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Welfare of the Workers (1940) The Welfare King (1996) Welfare (1975) | |
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 | Front view of CDC, Building 1, and signage promoting vaccination. Note the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare CDC marker in the foreground.Credit: CDC. |  | Team members from F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyo., race up the steps of the Fayetteville, W.Va., court house during the end of the 5.5-mile run, the last event in a four-event competition sponsored by Navy Morale, Welfare and Recreation dubbed Wilderness. |
 | [The Shanghai Mother's Club of the Child Welfare and Maternal Health Clinic] / UNRRA P.Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Wipperman.. |  | Metropolitan Hospital, Welfare Island, New York City, N.Y. : Mayor Strong and John Faure, Commissioner of Charities in 1896.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Cover for sheet music composed and written by Chief Yeoman Daisy May Pratt Erd, USNRF, during World War I. It was published by the First Naval District's Welfare Aide, Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts.Credit: NAVY. |  | The people's welfare my reward.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The magnetic welfare system attracting millions of people.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Marysville camp for migrants. Supervised play for the children is part of the child welfare program at the Resettlement Administration camp. California.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Meeting of the women's welfare society.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Building of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Washington, D.C.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Benjamin Disraeli | Power has only one duty --to secure the social welfare of the People. |
Thomas B. Macaulay | The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | To this I reply, The people shall be judge; for who shall be judge whether his trustee or deputy acts well, and according to the trust reposed in him, but he who deputes him, and must, by having deputed him, have still a power to discard him, when he fails in his trust? If this be reasonable in particular cases of private men, why should it be otherwise in that of the greatest moment, where the welfare of millions is concerned, and also where the evil, if not prevented, is greater, and the redress very difficult, dear, and dangerous? (Second Treatise of Government) |
US Constitution | 1791 | We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | In order to assure the rights and welfare of the population and to guarantee to France complete freedom in working the mines, Germany agrees to the provisions of Chapters I and II of the Annex hereto. (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | What then is the over-all strategic concept which we should inscribe today? It is nothing less than the safety and welfare, the freedom and progress, of all the homes and families of all the men and women in all the lands. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
United Nations | 1948 | In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society. (reference) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Brief interruptions of medicine for such reasons do not seem to jeopardize the welfare of the child. (references) | |
Educational programs instituted by the renal center and by organizations concerned with the welfare of all kidney patients should explain the need for adequate dialysis time and correction of malnutrition, because these factors contribute to longer life of higher quality and correction of many co-morbid conditions. (references) | ||
Business | Consumer welfare, economic productivity, and political stability are considered indivisible. (references) | |
To strengthen social welfare measures, health expenditures have increased moderately in recent years. (references) | ||
A generous social welfare system provides for universal medical care, unemployment compensation, and other social needs. (references) | ||
Children | Equatorial Guinea | No provisions for the welfare of children are legislated. (references) |
Brunei | No statistics are published regarding the welfare of children. (references) | |
Tanzania | Government funding of programs for children's welfare remained miniscule. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Sri Lanka | Most of these persons remain displaced and live in or near welfare centers. (references) |
Australia | Sixteen changes to procedures were recommended, including many to improve the welfare of children at the facilities. (references) | |
Nepal | For decades dozens of Christian missionary hospitals, welfare organizations, and schools have operated in the country. (references) | |
Discrimination | Indonesia | However, guidelines adopted in the past 20 years also state that women's participation in the development process must not conflict with their role in improving family welfare and the education of the younger generation. (references) |
Economic History | Sri Lanka | The budget also allocates a further Rs 21 billion for welfare programs. (references) |
Sweden | Sweden combines a free market economy with extensive social welfare services. (references) | |
Human Rights | Iran | The security forces often do not inform family members of a prisoner's welfare and location. (references) |
Colombia | Juveniles are held in separate facilities operated by the Colombian Institute for Family Welfare (ICBF). (references) | |
Syria | Security forces often do not provide detainees' families with information regarding their welfare or location while in detention. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Japan | According to a 1999 survey, 3.72 percent of Ainu receive welfare benefits, roughly double the national average of 1.84 percent. (references) |
Australia | Federal and state government leaders agreed in November 2000 to promote the economic welfare of indigenous people and reduce economic disparity. (references) | |
Japan | The Japan Ainu Association, a nationwide organization of Ainu, lobbies the Government for economic assistance and greater social welfare benefits for Ainu throughout the country. (references) | |
Minorities | Japan | In recent years, the Buraku Liberation League has placed less emphasis on class struggle and more emphasis on civil rights, social welfare, and the environment. (references) |
Ireland | Many Travellers were dependent on social welfare for survival and were unable to participate in the mainstream economy because of discrimination and a lack of education. (references) | |
Denmark | In response to publicity concerning the involvement of foreigners in street crime and allegations of social welfare fraud committed by refugees, Parliament passed tighter immigration laws that took effect in 1999. Family reunification is now more difficult, and immigrants and refugees can no longer acquire permanent residence by living in the country for 18 months; rather they must now reside for 3 years and demonstrate, usually by so doing, that they have integrated into society. (references) | |
Political Economy | Finland | This being said, it supports the Nordic welfare state. (references) |
Sweden | Citizens enjoy a high standard of living, with extensive social welfare services. (references) | |
Austria | It retains, however, its support for a comprehensive, but expensive social welfare system. (references) | |
Political Rights | Lesotho | Two women are government ministers, one the Minister of Environment, Women, and Youth Affairs and the other the Minister of Health and Social Welfare. (references) |
Belgium | The linguistic community councils handle matters more directly affecting the mental and cultural well-being of the individual, such as education and the administration of certain social welfare programs. (references) | |
Saudi Arabia | Typical topics raised in a majlis include complaints about bureaucratic delay or insensitivity, requests for personal redress or assistance, and criticism of particular acts of government affecting family welfare. (references) | |
Trade | Canada | The Canadian federal government also has numerous commodity standards to safeguard public welfare. (references) |
Finland | These are mostly articles that might damage health, welfare or country's economy, or result in the spread of animal and plant diseases. (references) | |
Bangladesh | Standards for pharmaceuticals are controlled by the Department of Drugs Administration under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. (references) | |
Women | Japan | These women also received medical and welfare assistance from the AWF. (references) |
Algeria | Their main goals are to foster women's economic welfare and to amend aspects of the Family Code. (references) | |
Burma | The Myanmar Maternal and Child Welfare Association, a government-controlled agency, provided assistance to mothers. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Namibia | The law requires employers to ensure the health, safety, and welfare of their employees. (references) |
Indonesia | The Indonesian Child Welfare Foundation issues anecdotal reports on trafficking incidents. (references) | |
Thailand | Rather than being deported, they become the responsibility of the Public Welfare Department. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | TREE, n. A tall vegetable intended by nature to serve as a penal apparatus, though through a miscarriage of justice most trees bear only a negligible fruit, or none at all. When naturally fruited, the tree is a beneficient agency of civilization and an important factor in public morals. In the stern West and the sensitive South its fruit (white and black respectively) though not eaten, is agreeable to the public taste and, though not exported, profitable to the general welfare. That the legitimate relation of the tree to justice was no discovery of Judge Lynch (who, indeed, conceded it no primacy over the lamp-post and the bridge-girder) is made plain by the following passage from Morryster, who antedated him by two centuries: While in yt londe I was carried to see ye Ghogo tree, whereof I had hearde moch talk; but sayynge yt I saw naught remarkabyll in it, ye hed manne of ye villayge where it grewe made answer as followeth: "Ye tree is not nowe in fruite, but in his seasonne you shall see dependynge fr. his braunches all soch as have affroynted ye King his Majesty." And I was furder tolde yt ye worde "Ghogo" sygnifyeth in yr tong ye same as "rapscal" in our owne. Trauvells in ye Easte |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | For me, the Third World is any country where the soccer game is called on account of locusts, where even the people working in the unemployment office are on welfare. |
Rush Limbaugh | The mission of business, after all, is to fund government operations with ever-increasing taxes, and facilitate the welfare state's acquisition of government goodies. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | Nothing can more promote the permanent welfare of the nation and nothing would be more grateful to our constituents. |
Martin van Buren | 1837-1841 | Distinct sovereignties were in actual existence, whose cordial union was essential to the welfare and happiness of all. |
Theodore Roosevelt | 1901-1909 | Upon the success of our experiment much depends, not only as regards our own welfare, but as regards the welfare of mankind. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | I accept it with a deep resolve to do all that I can for the welfare of this Nation and for the peace of the world. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Public welfare cannot help those too proud to seek relief but hard-pressed to pay their own bills. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | Complex welfare programs cannot be reformed overnight. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Federal welfare programs have created a massive social problem. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | Welfare was never meant to be a lifestyle. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Give someone on welfare the chance to go to work. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | Good jobs must be the aim of welfare reform. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Welfare" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.81% of the time. "Welfare" is used about 4,826 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.81% | 4,817 | 2,033 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.19% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4,826 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "welfare": Animal Welfare ♦ be on welfare ♦ child welfare ♦ child welfare agency ♦ child welfare service ♦ department of Health Education and Welfare ♦ educational and welfare work ♦ Foreign Residents Welfare Division ♦ Infant Welfare ♦ labor welfare act ♦ labour welfare act ♦ Maternal Welfare ♦ maternity welfare ♦ prison welfare ♦ Protecting Adult Welfare ♦ public welfare ♦ recreation and welfare officer ♦ secretary of Health Education and Welfare ♦ Social Welfare ♦ spiritual welfare ♦ welfare aid ♦ welfare case ♦ welfare centre ♦ welfare check ♦ welfare client ♦ welfare foods ♦ welfare officer ♦ welfare plans ♦ welfare report ♦ welfare state ♦ welfare statism ♦ welfare system ♦ welfare work ♦ welfare worker. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "welfare": welfare-dependent, welfare-enhancing, welfare-increasing, welfare-maximizing, welfare-minded, welfare-only, welfare-orientated, welfare-oriented, welfare-relevant, welfare-scrounging, welfare-state, welfare-stations, welfare-statist, welfare-tax, welfare-wafflers. | |
Ending with "welfare": animal-welfare, pro-welfare, social-welfare. | |
Containing "welfare": mini-welfare-state, social-welfare-like, world-welfare-enhancing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "welfare"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | ndihmë sociale, mirëqenie (prosperity, weal, well being), mbarëvajtje (progress, thrift, well being). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فائدة (advantage, avail, behoof, benefit, good, increase, interest, living, pay off, pay-book, profit, scoop, use, usefulness, usury, utility, worth), سعادة (beatitude, excellency, felicity, gladness, glee, happiness, his excellency, joy, privilege, sunshine, weal, well being), صالح (adequate, godly, good, make one's peace with, make up, pact, righteous, useful, valid, veracious, well being), خير (beneficent, benevolent, charitable, good, interest, well being), الإنعاش (revival), رفاهة, شؤون اجتماعية. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | благосъстояние (flesh-pots, wealth, well being), благополучие (bonanza, prosperity, up, well being), благоденствие (affluence, flushness, prosperity, speed, weal), добруване. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 福利 (well-being). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zdar (luck, speed, success, well being), spokojenost (contentment, happiness, satisfaction, well), prosperita (prosperity, well), prospìch (advantage, avail, behoof, benefit, good, grades, interest, profit, well), blaho (bliss, paradise, well). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | socialhjælp (social welfare, social work), diabetesbehandlingscenter (welfare organization for diabetics), forebyggende undersøgelser af gravide kvinder og småbørn (maternal and child health, maternal and child welfare), forsorgsarbejderske (social case worker, social worker, welfare officer, welfare worker), hjemmepleje for ældre (old-age home help, old-age welfare care), husholdningernes tilbagebetaling af udgifter,som de sociale bistandsydere har afholdt til fordel for disse (refunds by households of expenditure incurred on their behalf by social welfare organisations), boernesundhedspleje (infant welfare), socialforsorg (social welfare), velfærdsstat (welfare state), socialhjælper (social case worker, social worker, welfare officer, welfare worker), socialrådgiver (social case worker, social worker, welfare officer, welfare worker), socialrådgivning (social welfare, social work), socialraadgivning (social assistance, social casework, social welfare), ungdomsforsorg (youth welfare), velfærdsøkonomi (welfare economics), social bistand (social welfare, social work). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | welzijnszorg (associations), welzijn (well-being). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | سعادت (Bliss, Felicity, Paradise), خیریه , خیر (Good, Nay, No), اسایش (Comfort, Rest), رفاه (Quiet), شادکامی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | hyvä (benefit, good, kind, nice, okay), huolto (care, logistics, maintenance, service, servicing, supply). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | bien-être (well being, well-being). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Wohlfahrt (well-being), Sozialhilfe (income support, national assistance, social security, welfare aid), Fürsorge (care, ministration, social security). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καλό (right), ευημερία (prosperity, prosperousness, weal, well being, wenfare, wheal), αγαθοεργία (beneficence, benevolence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | רוחה (comfort, prosperity, relief, roominess, well being). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | jólét (abundance, comfort, flesh-pots of egypt, flourish, pecuniary ease, plenty, prosperity, sufficiency, weal, wealth, well being), boldogulás (pick-up, prosperity, weal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kesejahteraan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | benessere (comfort, ease, easiness, weal, well, well being, wellfare). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 福祉 (well-being). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ため (advantage, as a result of, because of, benefit, cesspool, good, in order to, manure sink, sake, sink, to), きゅうせき (historic ruins, historic spot, mensuration, weal and woe), ふくり (compound interest), ふくし (adverb, deputy delegate, double vision, polyopia, vice-envoy, well-being), せいすい (clearwater, elegance, purity, rise and fall, unselfishness, ups and downs, vicissitudes), あんぴ (safety, well-being), あんき (comfort, ease, fate, feeling at home, learning by heart, memorization, safety). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 복지 (Well-being). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | lhiass (advantage, advantage upper hand, benefit, need, profit), foays (benefit, betterment, goodness, improvement, quality, utility, well-being). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | elfareway saúde (bless you, cheers, chin chin, health, toast), prosperidade (bonanza, gain, good, prosperity, speed, success, weal, wealth, well doing), felicidade (bliss, felicity, happiness, joy, luckless, paradise, prosperous, sunshine, try one's luck, weal, well being), bem-estar (comfort, convenience, ease, good, wad, weal, well being), bem (benefit, blessing, decently, draw well, fortune, good, much, nice, nicely, now, OK, okay, property, quite, so, very, well, yes). (various references) prosperitate (bonanza, boom, flourish, flourishing, glory, heyday, prosperity, thriving, weal, wellbeing), fericire (blessedness, blessing, bliss, felicity, happiness, joy, luckiness, prize, well), bunãstare (thriving, weal, wellbeing), ajutor social. (various references) благосостояние (health, prosperity, weal, wealth, well-being), благоденствие. (various references) socijalna pomoć (dole), blagostanje (good life, prosperity, weal, well being, well doing). (various references) bienestar (individual, well being, well-being). (various references) välgång (prosperity), välfärd (weal). (various references) yardım (aid, alms, assist, assistance, backing, backup, booster, comfort, contribution, cooperation, dole, donation, donative, Favor, favour, furtherance, hand, help, helpfulness, lift, relief, rescue, shot, stand by, succor, succour, support, sustenance), sosyal yardımlaşma, sağlık (curative, fitness, health, hygienic, sanitarian, sanitary, sense of well-being, soundness, well being), refah (bonanza, comfort, ease, opulence, prosperity, prosperous, weal), mutluluk (bliss, blissfulness, elation, felicity, glory, happiness, heaven, Nirvana, sense of well-being, smiles, weal, well being). (various references) благополуччя (wealth, well doing), благодійність (alms, alms deed, benefit, charity), добробут (commonweal, health, success, weal). (various references) sự chăm sóc (custody, ministration), hạnh phúc (bliss, blissful, felicitous, felicity, luckiness, mercy, weal, wealth, well-being). (various references) y wladwriaeth les (the welfare state). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Avestan | 200-600 | saoka. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | wela. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 43, Verse 26 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Eishlqen de iwshf eiV thn oikian kai proshnegkan autw ta dwra a eicon en taiV cersin autwn eiV ton oikon kai prosekunhsan autw epi proswpon epi thn ghn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Igitur ingressus est Ioseph domum suam obtuleruntque ei munera tenentes in manibus et adoraverunt proni in terram |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Thanne Joseph cam into his hows, and thei holdynge yiftis in her hondis, offerden to hym, and lowtiden bowid into the erthe. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | When Ioseph came home they brought the present in to the house to him which they had in their handes ad fell flat on the grounde befor him. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And when Joseph came home, they brought him the present which was in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves to him to the earth. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | \43:27\And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father well, the old man of whom ye spoke? Is he yet alive? |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And he said, How are you? is your father well, the old man of whom you were talking to me? is he still living? |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Genesis Chapter 43, Verse 26 |
| Cebuano | Ug sa miabut na si Jose sa balay, ug ilang gidala kaniya sa sulod sa balay ang gasa nga diha sa ilang kamot, ug mingyukbo sila kaniya ngadto sa yuta. |
| Croatian | Kad je Josip došao u kuæu, dadu mu darove koje su sa sobom donijeli i do zemlje mu se poklone. |
| Danish | Han hilste på dem og spurgte: "Går det eders gamle Fader vel, ham, I talte om? Lever han endnu?" |
| Dutch | Als nu Jozef te huis gekomen was, zo brachten zij hem het geschenk, hetwelk in hun hand was, in het huis, en zij bogen zich voor hem ter aarde. |
| Finnish | Kun Joosef oli tullut kotiin, veivät he hänelle huoneeseen lahjat, jotka heillä oli mukanaan, ja kumartuivat maahan hänen edessänsä. |
| French | Quand Joseph fut arrivé à la maison, ils lui offrirent le présent qu`ils avaient apporté, et ils se prosternèrent en terre devant lui. |
| German | Da nun Joseph zum Hause einging, brachten sie ihm ins Haus das Geschenk in ihren Händen und fielen vor ihm nieder zur Erde. |
| Haitian Creole | ¶ Lè Jozèf antre lakay li, yo pote kado yo ba li, yo bese tèt yo jouk atè devan li. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Ketika Yusuf sampai di rumah, mereka memberikan hadiah-hadiah itu kepada Yusuf sambil sujud kepadanya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Setelah sudah Yusuf pulang, maka dibawa oleh mereka itu akan persembahan yang di tangannya kepadanya dalam rumah, lalu sujudlah mereka itu di hadapannya sampai ke bumi. |
| Maori | ¶ A, i te taenga mai o Hohepa ki te whare, ka kawea e ratou ki a ia te hakari a o ratou ringa ki te whare, a ka piko ki a ia ki te whenua. |
| Norwegian | Men han spurte dem om det gikk dem vel, og han sa: Går det eders far vel, den gamle som I talte om? Lever han ennu? |
| Portuguese | Quando José chegou em casa, trouxeram-lhe ali o presente que guardavam junto de si; e inclinaram-se a ele até a terra. |
| Rumanian | Cknd a ajuns Iosif acasq, i-au dat darul, pe care i -l aduseserq, wi s`au aruncat cu faya la pqmknt knaintea lui. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "welfare": welfares. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "welfare": antiwelfare. (additional references) | |
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"Welfare" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eweleaze, telefarm, walfare, Walfart, wealfare, wefare, welfar, Welfaria, wellfair, wlefare. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "welfare" (pronounced we"lfe'r) |
| 3 | -f e' r | airfare, fanfare, thoroughfare, warfare, workfare. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-f-l-r-w" | |
-1 letter: reflew. | |
-2 letters: farle, feral, fewer, flare, fleer, laree, refel, wafer, waler. | |
-3 letters: alee, alef, awee, earl, ewer, fare, farl, feal, fear, feel, fere, flaw, flea, flee, flew, frae, free, leaf, lear, leer, rale, real, reef, reel, wale, ware, weal, wear, weel, weer, were. | |
-4 letters: ale, are, arf, awe, awl, ear, eel, elf, era, ere. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-f-l-r-w" | |
+1 letter: farewell, welfares. | |
+2 letters: delftware, farewells, flowerage, waterleaf. | |
+3 letters: delftwares, farewelled, firewalled, flowerages, waterleafs. | |
+4 letters: antiwelfare, farewelling, waterfowler. | |
+5 letters: flamethrower, pasqueflower, waterflooded, waterfowlers, wearifulness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 65 6C 66 61 72 65 |
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