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must needs

Meaning of “must needs”

Must necessarily be so or be done; an emphatic expression of necessity or obligation.

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First occurrence: Genesis 17:13

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Jeremiah 10:5
They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 10:5 · retained source text

They are vpright as the palme tree, but speake not: they must needes bee borne, because they cannot goe: be not afraid of them, for they cannot doe euil, neither also is it in them to doe good.

1611 marginal notePsa.115.5.

1611 marginal noteIsa.46.1, 7.

1611 marginal noteIsa.41.28.

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