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edge

Meaning of “edge”

The cutting border, outer limit, or boundary of something.

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56 occurrences50 verses16 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Genesis 34:26

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Job 1:17
While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
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The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Job 1:17 · retained source text

While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Caldeans made out three bands, and fell vpon the camels, and haue caried them away, yea, and slaine the seruants with the edge of the sword, and I onely am escaped alone, to tell thee.

1611 marginal noteHebr. rushed.

Psalms 89:43
Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast not made him to stand in the battle.
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1611 witness · Psalms 89:43 · retained source text

Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword: and hast not made him to stand in the battaile.

Ecclesiastes 10:10
If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct.
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1611 witness · Ecclesiastes 10:10 · retained source text

If the yron be blunt, and he doe not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisedome is profitable to direct.

Jeremiah 21:7
And afterward, saith the Lord, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life: and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 21:7 · retained source text

And afterward, saith the LORD, I will deliuer Zedekiah king of Iudah, and his seruants, and the people, and such as are left in this citie from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seeke their life, and and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword: hee shall not spare them, neither haue pitie, nor haue mercy.

Jeremiah 31:29
In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Jeremiah 31:29 · retained source text

In those dayes they shall say no more, The fathers haue eaten a sowre grape, and the childrens teeth are set on edge.

1611 marginal noteEze.18.2.

Jeremiah 31:30
But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 31:30 · retained source text

But euery one shall die for his owne iniquitie, euery man that eateth the sowre grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.

Ezekiel 18:2
What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge?
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1611 witness · Ezekiel 18:2 · retained source text

What meane ye that yee vse this prouerbe concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers haue eaten sowre grapes, and the childrens teeth are set on edge?

1611 marginal noteIee.31 29.

Ezekiel 43:13
¶ And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits: The cubit is a cubit and an hand breadth; even the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge thereof round about shall be a span: and this shall be the higher place of the altar.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Ezekiel 43:13 · retained source text

¶ And these are the measures of the Altar after the cubites; the cubite is a cubite and an hand breadth, euen the bottom shalbe a cubite, and the breadth a cubite, and the border thereof by the edge therof round about shalbe a spanne, and this shalbe the higher place of the Altar.

1611 marginal noteHebr. bosome.

1611 marginal noteHebr. lippe.

Luke 21:24
And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
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1611 witness · Luke 21:24 · retained source text

And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall bee led away captiue into all nations, and Hierusalem shall be troden downe of the Gentiles, vntill the times of the Gentiles bee fulfilled.

Hebrews 11:34
Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.
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1611 witness · Hebrews 11:34 · retained source text

Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakenesse were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.

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