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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

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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.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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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
The 1611 reading
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
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
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.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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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.

Ezekiel 35:5
Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Ezekiel 35:5 · retained source text

Because thou hast had a perpetuall hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamitie, in the time that their iniquitie had an end;

1611 marginal noteOr, hatred of old.

1611 marginal noteHeb. powred out the children.

1611 marginal noteHeb. hands.

Obadiah 1:13
Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; yea, thou shouldest not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity;
3 word occurrences in this verse
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1611 witness · Obadiah 1:13 · retained source text

Thou shouldest not haue entred into the gate of my people in the day of their calamitie: yea, thou shouldest not haue looked on their affliction in the day of their calamitie, nor haue laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamitie.

1611 marginal noteOr, forces.

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