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battle

Meaning of “battle”

1. Armed fighting or conflict between opposing forces; an engagement or warfare. 2. A battle line, array, or body of forces prepared or engaged for combat.

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170 occurrences163 verses26 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Genesis 14:8

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Psalms 24:8
Who is this King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Psalms 24:8 · retained source text

Who is this king of glory? the LORD strong & mightie, the LORD mighty in battell.

Psalms 55:18
He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me: for there were many with me.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Psalms 55:18 · retained source text

He hath deliuered my soule in peace from the battell that was against me: for there were many with me.

Psalms 76:3
There brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Psalms 76:3 · retained source text

There brake he the arrowes of the bowe, the shield, and the sword, and the battell. Selah.

Psalms 78:9
The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Psalms 78:9 · retained source text

The children of Ephraim being armed, and carying bowes, turned backe in the day of battell.

1611 marginal noteHebr. throwing foorth.

Psalms 89:43
Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast not made him to stand in the battle.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Psalms 89:43 · retained source text

Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword: and hast not made him to stand in the battaile.

Psalms 140:7
O God the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Psalms 140:7 · retained source text

O God the LORD, the strength of my saluation: thou hast couered my head in the day of battell.

Proverbs 21:31
The horse is prepared against the day of battle: but safety is of the Lord.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Proverbs 21:31 · retained source text

The horse is prepared against the day of battell: but safetie is of the LORD.

1611 marginal noteOr, victory.

1611 marginal notePsal.33.17.

1611 marginal notePsal.3.9.

Ecclesiastes 9:11
¶ I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Ecclesiastes 9:11 · retained source text

¶ I returned, and saw vnder the Sunne, That the race is not to the swift, nor the battell to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of vnderstanding, nor yet fauour to men of skil; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

Isaiah 9:5
For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Isaiah 9:5 · retained source text

For euery battell of the warriour is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fewell of fire.

1611 marginal noteOr, when the whole battell of the warriour was, &c.

1611 marginal noteOr, and it was, &c.

1611 marginal noteHeb. meate.

Isaiah 13:4
The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the Lord of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Isaiah 13:4 · retained source text

The noise of a multitude in the mountaines, like as of a great people: a tumultuous noise of the kingdomes of nations gathered together: the LORD of hostes mustereth the hoste of the battell.

1611 marginal noteHeb. the likenesse of.

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