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midst

Meaning of “midst”

The middle, centre, interior, or intervening part of a place, body, company, or condition; among, within, surrounded by, or in the presence of persons or things.

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KJV context and cross-referencesWebster 1828
364 occurrences350 verses41 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Genesis 1:6

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Isaiah 4:4
When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Isaiah 4:4 · retained source text

When the LORD shall haue washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall haue purged the blood of Ierusalem from the middest thereof, by the spirit of iudgement, and by the spirit of burning.

Isaiah 5:2
And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Isaiah 5:2 · retained source text

And hee fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a towre in the middest of it, and also made a winepresse therein: and he looked that it should bring foorth grapes, and it brought foorth wilde grapes.

1611 marginal noteOr, made a wall about it.

1611 marginal noteHeb. hewed.

Isaiah 5:8
¶ Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Isaiah 5:8 · retained source text

¶ Woe vnto them that ioyne house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth.

1611 marginal noteMich.2.2.

Isaiah 5:25
Therefore is the anger of the Lord kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Isaiah 5:25 · retained source text

Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched foorth his hande against them, and hath smitten them: and the hilles did tremble, and their carkeises were torne in the midst of the streets: for all this, his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

1611 marginal noteOr as doung.

1611 marginal noteCha. 9.11 16.21. and 10.4.

Isaiah 6:5
¶ Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Isaiah 6:5 · retained source text

¶ Then sayd I; woe is me; for I am vndone, because I am a man of vncleane lippes, and I dwell in the midst of a people of vncleane lippes: for mine eyes haue seene the king, the LORD of hostes.

1611 marginal noteHeb. cut off.

Isaiah 6:12
And the Lord have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Isaiah 6:12 · retained source text

And the LORD haue remoued men farre away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.

Isaiah 7:6
Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeal:
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Isaiah 7:6 · retained source text

Let vs goe vp against Iudah and vexe it, and let vs make a breach therein for vs, and set a king in the midst of it, euen the sonne of Tabeal.

1611 marginal noteOr, waken.

Isaiah 10:23
For the Lord God of hosts shall make a consumption, even determined, in the midst of all the land.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Isaiah 10:23 · retained source text

For the LORD God of hostes shall make a consumption, euen determined in the middest of all the land.

1611 marginal noteChap.28.22.

Isaiah 12:6
Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Isaiah 12:6 · retained source text

Cry out and shout thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the holy one of Israel in the midst of thee.

1611 marginal noteHeb. inhabitresse.

Isaiah 16:3
Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Isaiah 16:3 · retained source text

Take counsell, execute Iudgement, make thy shadow as the night in the middest of the nooneday, hide the outcastes, bewray not him that wandereth.

1611 marginal noteHeb. bring.

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