KJV dictionary & concordance
Third-person singular present form of melt. Sense 1: To make or become liquid or dissolved. Sense 2: To waste or lose substance. Sense 3: Figuratively, to lose courage or strength.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Psalms 58:8
Complete exact-word concordance
As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
As a snaile which melteth, let euery one of them passe away: like the vntimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sunne.
As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
As smoke is driuen away, so driue them away: as waxe melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word.
My soule melteth for heauines: strengthen thou me according vnto thy word.
1611 marginal noteHeb. droppeth.
He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he causeth his wind to blow, and the waters flow.
He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he causeth his wind to blow, and the waters flow.
The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
The workeman melteth a grauen image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it ouer with golde, and casteth siluer chaines.
The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.
The bellowes are burnt, the lead is consumed of the fire: the founder melteth in vaine: for the wicked are not plucked away.
She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.
Shee is emptie, and voide, and waste, and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much paine is in all loynes, and the faces of them all gather blacknesse.
1611 marginal noteIsai.13.7, 8.
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