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flint

Meaning of “flint”

A very hard stone.

Definition sources

KJV context and cross-referencesWebster 1828
5 occurrences5 verses4 booksKJV PCE

First occurrence: Deuteronomy 8:15

Complete exact-word concordance

Every verse containing “flint”

KJV PCE
Deuteronomy 8:15
Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Deuteronomy 8:15 · retained source text

Who led thee through that great and terrible wildernesse, wherein were fierie serpents, and scorpions, & drought, where there was no water, who brought thee foorth water out of the rocke of flint,

1611 marginal noteNum. 20.11.

Psalms 114:8
Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Psalms 114:8 · retained source text

Which turned the rocke into a standing water: the flint into a fountaine of waters.

1611 marginal noteExod. 17.6. Num. 20.11.

Isaiah 5:28
Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses’ hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Isaiah 5:28 · retained source text

Whose arrowes are sharpe, and all their bowes bent, their horses hoofs shall bee counted like flint, and their wheeles like a whirlewind.

Isaiah 50:7
¶ For the Lord God will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Isaiah 50:7 · retained source text

¶ For the LORD God will helpe me, therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore haue I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not bee ashamed.

Ezekiel 3:9
As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Ezekiel 3:9 · retained source text

As an adamant harder then flint haue I made thy forehead: feare them not, neither be dismayed at their lookes, though they be a rebellious house.

1611 marginal noteIer.1.8.

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Historical English dictionary sources

Historical definitions

A very hard kind of stone which strikes fire with steel. Any thing proverbially hard.

Webster 1828 facsimile, volume 1, leaf 777