KJV dictionary & concordance
Sense 1: Series of connected links used as ornaments, restraints, or bonds. Sense 2: Figuratively, confinement, affliction, or surrounding force.
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Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Exodus 28:14
Complete exact-word concordance
The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
The chaines, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
1611 marginal noteOr, sweetballes.
1611 marginal noteOr, spangled ornaments.
The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
The workeman melteth a grauen image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it ouer with golde, and casteth siluer chaines.
Thus saith the Lord, The labour of Egypt, and merchandise of Ethiopia and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over unto thee, and they shall be thine: they shall come after thee; in chains they shall come over, and they shall fall down unto thee, they shall make supplication unto thee, saying, Surely God is in thee; and there is none else, there is no God.
Thus saith the LORD, The labour of Egypt, and merchandise of Ethiopia, and of the Sabeans, men of stature shall come ouer vnto thee, and they shall be thine, they shall come after thee, in chaines they shall come ouer: and they shal fall downe vnto thee, they shal make supplication vnto thee, saying, Surely God is in thee, and there is none else, there is no god.
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