Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) The general tendency or drift that runs through a conversation or writing; also the male voice between bass and alto; course; career. 2. (n.) That course of thought which holds on through a discourse; the general drift or course of thought; purport; intent; meaning; understanding. 3. (n.) Stamp; character; nature. 4. (n.) An exact copy of a writing, set forth in the words and figures of it. It differs from purport, which is only the substance or general import of the instrument. 5. (n.) The higher of the two kinds of voices usually belonging to adult males; hence, the part in the harmony adapted to this voice; the second of the four parts in the scale of sounds, reckoning from the base, and originally the air, to which the other parts were auxiliary. 6. (n.) A person who sings the tenor, or the instrument that play it.

Multi-Version Concordance Tenor (5 Occurrences) Genesis 43:7 And they said, The man asked us straitly of our state, and of our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye another brother? and we told him according to the tenor of these words: could we certainly know that he would say, Bring your brother down? (KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT) Exodus 34:27 And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel. (KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT) Deuteronomy 17:10 You shall do according to the tenor of the sentence which they shall show you from that place which Yahweh shall choose; and you shall observe to do according to all that they shall teach you: (WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT) Deuteronomy 17:11 according to the tenor of the law which they shall teach you, and according to the judgment which they shall tell you, you shall do; you shall not turn aside from the sentence which they shall show you, to the right hand, nor to the left. (WEB ASV YLT) Proverbs 22:6 Train up the child according to the tenor of his way, and when he is old he will not depart from it. (DBY)