KJV dictionary & concordance
A grievous event or condition of ruin, disaster, affliction, misery, or destructive trouble.
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Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Deuteronomy 32:35
Complete exact-word concordance
To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.
To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence, their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamitie is at hand, and the things that shal come vpon them, make haste.
1611 marginal noteEcclus. 28.1. rom. 12.19. Heb. 10.30.
They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the Lord was my stay.
They preuented me in the day of my calamitie: but the LORD was my stay.
Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
Oh that my griefe were throughly weighed, and my calamitie layd in the balances together.
1611 marginal noteHeb. lifted vp.
They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
They marre my path, they set forward my calamitie, they haue no helper.
They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the Lord was my stay.
They preuented me in the day of my calamitie: but the LORD was my stay.
I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
I also will laugh at your calamitie, I wil mocke when your feare commeth.
Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.
Therefore shall his calamitie come suddenly; suddenly shall hee be broken without remedie.
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
A foolish sonne is the calamity of his father; and the contentions of a wife are a continuall dropping.
1611 marginal noteChap. 10.1. & 15.20. and 17 21. & 25. and chap. 21.9.
1611 marginal noteChap. 27.15.
For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knoweth the ruin of them both?
For their calamity shall rise suddenly, and who knoweth the ruine of them both?
Thine own friend, and thy father’s friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother’s house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.
Thine owne friend and thy fathers friend forsake not; neither goe in to thy brothers house in the day of thy calamitie: for better is a neighbour that is neere, then a brother farre off.
1611 marginal noteChap. 17.17. and 18.24.
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