Definition of "esteem"

Will he esteem thy riches?

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Job 36:19

You talk kindlier: we esteem you for it.

1847, Alfred Tennyson, “(please specify the page number, or |part=Prologue, I to VII, or conclusion)”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […]

Then he forsook God, which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Deuteronomy 32:15

Thou shouldest (gentle reader) esteem his censure and authority to be of the more weighty credence.

1535, Edmund Bonner, De vera obedientia by Stephen Gardiner (Preface)

Famous men, whose scientific attainments were esteemed hardly less than supernatural.

1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 9, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields

And greatly do I respect the solid character, — a blockhead, thou wilt say; yes, but a well-conditioned blockhead, and the best-conditioned, — who esteems all ‘Customs once solemnly acknowledged’ to be ultimate, divine, and the rule for a man to walk by, nothing doubting, not inquiring farther.

1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. V, The English”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, book III (The Modern Worker)