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
And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.
And the greater house hee sieled with firre tree, which he ouerlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palme trees and chaines.
And he made chains, as in the oracle, and put them on the heads of the pillars; and made an hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains.
And he made chaines, as in the Oracle, and put them on the heads of the pillars, and made an hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chaines.
God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
God setteth the solitary in a families: hee bringeth out those which are bound with chaines, but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
1611 marginal noteHebr. in a house.
To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;
To binde their Kings with chaines: and their Nobles with fetters of yron.
For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
For they shall be an ornament of grace vnto thy head, and chaines about thy necke.
1611 marginal noteHebr. an adding.
Thy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels, thy neck with chains of gold.
Thy cheekes are comely with rowes of iewels, thy necke with chaines of golde.
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.
Moreover he put out Zedekiah’s eyes, and bound him with chains, to carry him to Babylon.
Moreouer he put out Zedekiahs eyes, and bound him with chaines, to cary him to Babylon.
1611 marginal noteHeb. with two brasen chaines, or fetters.
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