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receive

Meaning of “receive”

To take, accept, admit, welcome, or obtain what is given or presented.

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176 occurrences167 verses42 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Genesis 4:11

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Jeremiah 5:3
O Lord, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
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The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Jeremiah 5:3 · retained source text

O LORD, are not thine eyes vpon the trueth? thou hast stricken them, but they haue not grieued; thou hast consumed them, but they haue refused to receiue correction: they haue made their faces harder then a rocke, they haue refused to returne.

1611 marginal noteIsai.9.13. chap. 2.30.

Jeremiah 9:20
Yet hear the word of the Lord, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation.
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 9:20 · retained source text

Yet heare the word of the LORD, O ye women, & let your eare receiue the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and euery one her neighbour lamentation.

Jeremiah 17:23
But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction.
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 17:23 · retained source text

But they obeyed not, neither inclined their eare, but made their necke stiffe, that they might not heare nor receiue instruction.

Jeremiah 32:33
And they have turned unto me the back, and not the face: though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not hearkened to receive instruction.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 32:33 · retained source text

And they haue turned vnto mee the backe, and not the face, though I taught them rising vp early, and teaching them, yet they haue not hearkened to receiue instruction,

1611 marginal noteHeb. necke.

1611 marginal noteCha.2.27.

Jeremiah 35:13
Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Go and tell the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will ye not receive instruction to hearken to my words? saith the Lord.
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 35:13 · retained source text

Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Goe and tel the men of Iudah, and inhabitants of Ierusalem, Will yee not receiue instruction to hearken to my words, saith the LORD?

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