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houses

Meaning of “houses”

Buildings or dwelling places; by extension, the families, households, estates, possessions, royal lines, or bodies of people associated with them.

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136 occurrences125 verses36 booksKJV PCE

Some verses contain the word more than once.

First occurrence: Genesis 42:19

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Job 1:4
And his sons went and feasted in their houses, every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Job 1:4 · retained source text

And his sonnes went and feasted in their houses, euery one his day, and sent and called for their three sisters, to eate and to drinke with them.

Job 3:15
Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Job 3:15 · retained source text

Or with Princes that had golde, who filled their houses with siluer:

Job 4:19
How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Job 4:19 · retained source text

Howe much lesse on them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth.

1611 marginal note2.Cor. 5.1.

Job 15:28
And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Job 15:28 · retained source text

And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heapes.

Job 21:9
Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Job 21:9 · retained source text

Their houses are safe from feare, neither is the rod of God vpon them.

1611 marginal noteHeb. are peace from feare.

Job 22:18
Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Job 22:18 · retained source text

Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsell of the wicked is farre from me.

1611 marginal noteChap. 21.16.

Job 24:16
In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Job 24:16 · retained source text

In the darke they digge through houses which they had marked for themselues in the day time: they know not the light.

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