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calamity

Meaning of “calamity”

A grievous event or condition of ruin, disaster, affliction, misery, or destructive trouble.

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19 occurrences17 verses8 booksKJV PCE

Some verses contain the word more than once.

First occurrence: Deuteronomy 32:35

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Jeremiah 18:17
I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 18:17 · retained source text

I will scatter them as with an East winde before the enemie: I will shew them the backe, and not the face, in the day of their calamitie.

Jeremiah 46:21
Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, and the time of their visitation.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Jeremiah 46:21 · retained source text

Also her hired men are in the midst of her, like fatted bullocks, for they also are turned backe, and are fled away together; they did not stand, because the day of their calamitie was come vpon them, and the time of their visitation.

1611 marginal noteHebr. bullocks of the stall.

Jeremiah 48:16
The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hasteth fast.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 48:16 · retained source text

The calamitie of Moab is neere to come, and his affliction hasteth fast.

Jeremiah 49:8
Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I will visit him.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 49:8 · retained source text

Flee ye, turne backe, dwell deepe, O inhabitants of Dedan: for I will bring the calamitie of Esau vpon him, the time that I will visite him.

1611 marginal noteOr, they are turned backe.

Jeremiah 49:32
And their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter into all winds them that are in the utmost corners; and I will bring their calamity from all sides thereof, saith the Lord.
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 49:32 · retained source text

And their camels shall be a bootie, and the multitude of their cattell a spoile, and I will scatter into all winds them that are in the vtmost corners, and I will bring their calamitie from all sides thereof, saith the LORD.

1611 marginal noteHeb. cut off into corners, or that haue the corners of their haire polled.

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