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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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Nahum 2:10
She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.
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The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Nahum 2:10 · retained source text

Shee is emptie, and voide, and waste, and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much paine is in all loynes, and the faces of them all gather blacknesse.

1611 marginal noteIsai.13.7, 8.

Zechariah 4:12
And I answered again, and said unto him, What be these two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves?
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Zechariah 4:12 · retained source text

And I answered againe and said vnto him, What be these two oliue branches, which through the two golden pipes emptie the golden oyle out of themselues?

1611 marginal noteHeb. by the hand.

1611 marginal noteOr, emptie out of themselues oyle into the gold.

1611 marginal noteHeb. the gold,

Matthew 12:44
Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.
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1611 witness · Matthew 12:44 · retained source text

Then he saith, I will returne into my house from whence I came out; And when he is come, he findeth it emptie, swept, and garnished.

Mark 12:3
And they caught him, and beat him, and sent him away empty.
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1611 witness · Mark 12:3 · retained source text

And they caught him, and beat him, and sent him away emptie.

Luke 1:53
He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away.
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1611 witness · Luke 1:53 · retained source text

Hee hath filled the hungry with good things, and the rich hee hath sent emptie away.

1611 marginal notePsal. 34.10.

Luke 20:10
And at the season he sent a servant to the husbandmen, that they should give him of the fruit of the vineyard: but the husbandmen beat him, and sent him away empty.
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1611 witness · Luke 20:10 · retained source text

And at the season, hee sent a seruant to the husbandmen, that they should giue him of the fruit of the vineyard, but the husbandmen beat him, and sent him away emptie.

Luke 20:11
And again he sent another servant: and they beat him also, and entreated him shamefully, and sent him away empty.
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1611 witness · Luke 20:11 · retained source text

And againe hee sent another seruant, and they beat him also, and entreated him shamefully, and sent him away emptie.

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