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empty

Meaning of “empty”

Sense 1: Containing nothing; void, unfilled, destitute, or without effect. Sense 2: To pour out or deprive of contents.

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First occurrence: Genesis 31:42

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Genesis 31:42
Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight.
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1611 witness · Genesis 31:42 · retained source text

Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the feare of Isaac had bin with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now emptie: God hath seene mine affliction, and the labour of my hands, & rebuked thee yesternight.

Genesis 37:24
And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it.
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1611 witness · Genesis 37:24 · retained source text

And they tooke him and cast him into a pit: and the pit was emptie, there was no water in it.

Genesis 41:27
And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after them are seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine.
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1611 witness · Genesis 41:27 · retained source text

And the seuen thin and ill fauoured kine that came vp after them, are seuen yeeres: and the seuen emptie eares blasted with the East wind, shall bee seuen yeeres of famine.

Exodus 3:21
And I will give this people favour in the sight of the Egyptians: and it shall come to pass, that, when ye go, ye shall not go empty:
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1611 witness · Exodus 3:21 · retained source text

And I will giue this people fauour in the sight of the Egyptians, and it shall come to passe that when ye goe, ye shall not goe empty:

Exodus 23:15
Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:)
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1611 witness · Exodus 23:15 · retained source text

Thou shalt keepe the feast of vnleauened bread: thou shalt eate vnleauened bread seuen daies, as I commanded thee in the time appointed of the moneth Abib: for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appeare before me emptie:

1611 marginal noteChap. 13.3 & 34.18.

1611 marginal noteDeut. 16.16. ecclus. 35.4.

Exodus 34:20
But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou redeem him not, then shalt thou break his neck. All the firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And none shall appear before me empty.
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1611 witness · Exodus 34:20 · retained source text

But the firstling of an Asse thou shalt redeeme with a lambe: and if thou redeeme him not, then shalt thou breake his necke. All the first borne of thy sonnes thou shalt redeeme: and none shall appeare before me empty.

1611 marginal noteOr, kid.

1611 marginal noteChap. 23.15.

Leviticus 14:36
Then the priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest go into it to see the plague, that all that is in the house be not made unclean: and afterward the priest shall go in to see the house:
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1611 witness · Leviticus 14:36 · retained source text

Then the Priest shall command that they emptie the house, before the Priest goe into it to see the plague, that all that is in the house be not made vncleane: and afterward the Priest shall goe in, to see the house.

1611 marginal noteOr, prepare.

Deuteronomy 15:13
And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty:
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1611 witness · Deuteronomy 15:13 · retained source text

And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away emptie:

Deuteronomy 16:16
¶ Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the Lord empty:
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1611 witness · Deuteronomy 16:16 · retained source text

¶ Three times in a yeere shal all thy males appeare before the LORD thy God, in the place which hee shall chuse: in the feast of Unleauened bread, and in the feast of Weekes, and in the feast of Tabernacles: and they shal not appeare before the LORD emptie.

1611 marginal noteExod. 23.14. and 34.23.

1611 marginal noteEcclus. 35.4.

Judges 7:16
And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man’s hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Judges 7:16 · retained source text

And he diuided the three hundred men into three companies, and hee put a trumpet in euery mans hand, with empty pitchers, and lampes within the pitchers,

1611 marginal noteHebr. trumpets in the hand of all of them.

1611 marginal noteOr, firebrands: or torches.

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