Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Assigned to private uses; not public; private; as, the privy purse. 2. (a.) Secret; clandestine. 3. (a.) Appropriated to retirement; private; not open to the public. 4. (a.) Admitted to knowledge of a secret transaction; secretly cognizant; privately knowing. 5. (n.) A partaker; a person having an interest in any action or thing; one who has an interest in an estate created by another; a person having an interest derived from a contract or conveyance to which he is not himself a party. The term, in its proper sense, is distinguished from party. 6. (n.) A necessary house or place; a backhouse. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia PRIVY; PRIVILY priv'-i, priv'-i-li: These words are obsolete in modern English and are replaced by "secret," "secretly," rather than by the cognates "private," "privately." the Revised Version (British and American) usually has not altered the King James Version's use of the word, but in Psalm 11:2 has substituted "in darkness" and in Judges 9:31 uses "craftily," margin "in Tormah" (see TORMAH). In Ezekiel 21:14, the King James Version "entereth into their privy chambers," "privy" is a gloss, omitted in the Revised Version (British and American). "To be privy to a thing" (1 Kings 2:44 Acts 5:2) is simply "to know" it; in The Wisdom of Solomon 8:4, the Revised Version (British and American) has changed the phrase into "be initiated into."

Multi-Version Concordance Privy (3 Occurrences) Acts 5:2 And kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles' feet. (KJV ASV DBY WBS) Deuteronomy 23:1 He who is wounded in the stones, or has his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the assembly of Yahweh. (WEB KJV JPS ASV) 1 Kings 2:44 The king said moreover to Shimei, "You know all the wickedness which your heart is privy to, that you did to David my father. Therefore Yahweh shall return your wickedness on your own head. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS)