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long

Meaning of “long”

Sense 1: Extending a great distance or duration. Sense 2: To desire earnestly.

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First occurrence: Genesis 26:8

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Deuteronomy 1:6
The Lord our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount:
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Deuteronomy 1:6 · retained source text

The LORD our God spake vnto vs in Horeb, saying, Ye haue dwelt long ynough in this mount:

Deuteronomy 4:25
¶ When thou shalt beget children, and children’s children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the Lord thy God, to provoke him to anger:
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Deuteronomy 4:25 · retained source text

¶ When thou shalt beget children, and childrens children, and shalt haue remained long in the land, and shal corrupt your selues, & make a grauen image, or the likenes of any thing, and shall doe euil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to prouoke him to anger:

Deuteronomy 12:19
Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon the earth.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Deuteronomy 12:19 · retained source text

Take heed to thy selfe, that thou forsake not the Leuite, as long as thou liuest vpon the earth.

1611 marginal noteHebr. al thy dayes.

1611 marginal noteChap. 14.27. ecclus. 7.31.

Deuteronomy 14:24
And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it; or if the place be too far from thee, which the Lord thy God shall choose to set his name there, when the Lord thy God hath blessed thee:
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Deuteronomy 14:24 · retained source text

And if the way bee too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carie it, or if the place be too farre from thee, which the LORD thy God shall chuse to set his name there, when the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:

Deuteronomy 19:6
Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Deuteronomy 19:6 · retained source text

Lest the auenger of the blood pursue the slaier, while his heart is hot, and ouertake him, because the way is long, and slay him, whereas he was not worthy of death, in as much as hee hated him not in time past.

1611 marginal noteHeb. smite him in life.

1611 marginal noteHeb. from yesterday, third day.

Deuteronomy 20:19
¶ When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man’s life) to employ them in the siege:
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Deuteronomy 20:19 · retained source text

¶ When thou shalt besiege a citie a long time, in making warre against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof, by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eate of them, and thou shalt not cut them downe ( for the tree of the field is mans life) to employ them in the siege.

1611 marginal noteOr, for, O man the tree of the field is to be employed in the siege.

1611 marginal noteHeb. to goe from before thee.

Deuteronomy 28:32
Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no might in thine hand.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Deuteronomy 28:32 · retained source text

Thy sonnes, and thy daughters shall be giuen vnto another people, and thine eyes shal looke, and faile with longing for them al the day long: and there shall be no might in thine hand.

Deuteronomy 28:59
Then the Lord will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.
2 word occurrences in this verse
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1611 witness · Deuteronomy 28:59 · retained source text

Then the LORD wil make thy plagues wonderfull, and the plagues of thy seed, euen great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.

Deuteronomy 31:13
And that their children, which have not known any thing, may hear, and learn to fear the Lord your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Deuteronomy 31:13 · retained source text

And that their children which haue not knowen any thing, may heare, and learne to feare the LORD your God, as long as yee liue in the land, whither ye goe ouer Iordan to possesse it.

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