Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Pertaining to the origin or beginning; preceding all others; first in order; primitive; primary; pristine; as, the original state of man; the original laws of a country; the original inventor of a process. 2. (a.) Not copied, imitated, or translated; new; fresh; genuine; as, an original thought; an original process; the original text of Scripture. 3. (a.) Having the power to suggest new thoughts or combinations of thought; inventive; as, an original genius. 4. (a.) Before unused or unknown; new; as, a book full of original matter. 5. (n.) Origin; commencement; source. 6. (n.) That which precedes all others of its class; archetype; first copy; hence, an original work of art, manuscript, text, and the like, as distinguished from a copy, translation, etc. 7. (n.) An original thinker or writer; an originator. 8. (n.) A person of marked eccentricity. 9. (n.) The natural or wild species from which a domesticated or cultivated variety has been derived; as, the wolf is thought by some to be the original of the dog, the blackthorn the original of the plum.

Multi-Version Concordance Original (6 Occurrences) Ephesians 2:3 Among them all of us also formerly passed our lives, governed by the inclinations of our lower natures, indulging the cravings of those natures and of our own thoughts, and were in our original state deserving of anger like all others. (WEY) Ephesians 4:22 to put away, in regard to your former mode of life, your original evil nature which is doomed to perish as befits its misleading impulses, (WEY) 1 Timothy 5:12 and they incur disapproval for having broken their original vow. (WEY) Jude 1:6 And angels--those who did not keep the position originally assigned to them, but deserted their own proper abode--He reserves in everlasting bonds, in darkness, in preparation for the judgement of the great day. (Root in WEY DBY) Exodus 6:3 and I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, as God Almighty; but by my name Jehovah I was not known to them. (See JPS) 2 Chronicles 24:13 So the workmen worked, and the work of repairing went forward in their hands, and they set up the house of God in its state, and strengthened it. (See NIV)