Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) The act of executing or performing any duty, office, or calling; performance. 2. (n.) The appropriate action of any special organ or part of an animal or vegetable organism; as, the function of the heart or the limbs; the function of leaves, sap, roots, etc.; life is the sum of the functions of the various organs and parts of the body. 3. (n.) The natural or assigned action of any power or faculty, as of the soul, or of the intellect; the exertion of an energy of some determinate kind. 4. (n.) The course of action which peculiarly pertains to any public officer in church or state; the activity appropriate to any business or profession. 5. (n.) A quantity so connected with another quantity, that if any alteration be made in the latter there will be a consequent alteration in the former. Each quantity is said to be a function of the other. Thus, the circumference of a circle is a function of the diameter. If x be a symbol to which different numerical values can be assigned, such expressions as x2, 3x, Log. x, and Sin. x, are all functions of x. 6. (v. i.) Alt. of Functionate

Multi-Version Concordance Function (4 Occurrences) Romans 1:26 For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature. (WEB NAS) Romans 1:27 Likewise also the men, leaving the natural function of the woman, burned in their lust toward one another, men doing what is inappropriate with men, and receiving in themselves the due penalty of their error. (WEB NAS) Romans 12:4 For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members don't have the same function, (WEB WEY NAS RSV NIV) Exodus 27:19 All the instruments of the tabernacle in all its service, and all its pins, and all the pins of the court, shall be of brass. (See NIV)