KJV dictionary & concordance
To preserve, support, uphold, provide for, or continue.
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First occurrence: 1 Kings 8:45
Complete exact-word concordance
Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
Then heare thou in heauen their prayer & their supplication, and mainteine their cause.
1611 marginal noteOr, right.
Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling place, and maintain their cause,
Then heare thou their prayer and their supplication in heauen thy dwelling place, and mainteine their cause,
1611 marginal noteOr, right.
And let these my words, wherewith I have made supplication before the Lord, be nigh unto the Lord our God day and night, that he maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel at all times, as the matter shall require:
And let these my wordes wherewith I haue made supplication before the LORD, be nigh vnto the LORD our God, day and night, that hee maintaine the cause of his seruant, and the cause of his people Israel at all times, as the matter shall require:
1611 marginal noteHeb. the thing of a day in his day.
Out of the spoils won in battles did they dedicate to maintain the house of the Lord.
Out of the spoyles wonne in battels, did they dedicate to maintaine the house of the LORD.
1611 marginal noteHeb. out of the battels and spoiles.
Then hear thou from the heavens their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
Then heare thou from the heauens their prayer and their supplication, and maintaine their cause.
1611 marginal noteOr, right.
Then hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling place, their prayer and their supplications, and maintain their cause, and forgive thy people which have sinned against thee.
Then heare thou from the heauens, euen from thy dwelling place, their prayer and their supplications, and maintaine their cause, and forgiue thy people, which haue sinned against thee.
1611 marginal noteOr, right.
Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
Though hee slay mee, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintaine mine owne wayes before him.
1611 marginal noteHeb. proue, or argue.
I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.
I know that the LORD will maintaine the cause of the afflicted: and the right of the poore.
This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.
This is a faithfull saying, and these things I will that thou affirme constantly, that they which haue beleeued in God, might be carefull to maintaine good works: these things are good and profitable vnto men.
And let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful.
And let ours also learne to maintaine good workes for necessarie vses, that they be not vnfruitfull.
1611 marginal noteOr, professe honest trades
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