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instant

Meaning of “instant”

Sense 1: A moment or precise point of time. Sense 2: Urgent, pressing, persistent, or ready.

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8 occurrences8 verses5 booksKJV PCE

First occurrence: Isaiah 29:5

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Every verse containing “instant”

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Isaiah 29:5
Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Isaiah 29:5 · retained source text

Moreouer the multitude of thy strangers shalbe like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shalbe as chaffe, that passeth away; yea it shalbe at an instant suddenly.

Isaiah 30:13
Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Isaiah 30:13 · retained source text

Therefore this iniquitie shalbe to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking commeth suddenly at an instant.

Jeremiah 18:7
At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Jeremiah 18:7 · retained source text

At what instant I shall speake concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdome, to plucke vp and to pull downe, and to destroy it.

1611 marginal noteChap.1.10.

Jeremiah 18:9
And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Jeremiah 18:9 · retained source text

And at what instant I shall speake concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdome to build and to plant it;

Luke 2:38
And she coming in that instant gave thanks likewise unto the Lord, and spake of him to all them that looked for redemption in Jerusalem.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Luke 2:38 · retained source text

And she comming in that instant, gaue thankes likewise vnto the Lord, and spake of him to al them that looked for redemption in Hierusalem.

1611 marginal noteOr, Israel.

Luke 23:23
And they were instant with loud voices, requiring that he might be crucified. And the voices of them and of the chief priests prevailed.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Luke 23:23 · retained source text

And they were instant with loud voyces, requiring that he might be crucified: and the voyces of them, and of the chiefe Priests preuailed.

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