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comfort

Meaning of “comfort”

Sense 1: Strength, relief, encouragement, or consolation in distress. Sense 2: To strengthen, encourage, or console.

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66 occurrences62 verses25 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Genesis 5:29

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Job 2:11
¶ Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Job 2:11 · retained source text

¶ Now when Iobs three friends heard of all this euill, that was come vpon him, they came euery one from his owne place: Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; for they had made an appointment together to come to mourne with him, and to comfort him.

Job 6:10
Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Job 6:10 · retained source text

Then should I yet haue comfort, yea I would harden my selfe in sorrow; let him not spare, for I haue not concealed the words of the holy One.

Job 7:13
When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Job 7:13 · retained source text

When I say, My bed shal comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint:

Job 9:27
If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Job 9:27 · retained source text

If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leaue off my heauinesse, and comfort my selfe.

Job 10:20
Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Job 10:20 · retained source text

Are not my dayes few? cease then, and let me alone that I may take comfort a litle,

1611 marginal noteSee Chap. 8.9. and 7.6.

Job 21:34
How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?
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The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Job 21:34 · retained source text

How then comfort ye me in vaine, seeing in your answeres there remaineth falshood?

1611 marginal noteHeb. transgression.

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