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right

Meaning of “right”

1. Correct, just, upright, proper, lawful, fitting, true, or due; also a rightful claim or authority. 2. The direction or side opposite the left. 3. Straight, favourable, skilful, or approved. 4. Very, quite, or fully.

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First occurrence: Genesis 13:9

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Nehemiah 9:13
Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments:
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The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Nehemiah 9:13 · retained source text

Thou camest downe also vpon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heauen, and gauest them right iudgements, and true lawes, good statutes and commandements:

1611 marginal noteHeb. lawes of trueth.

1611 marginal noteExod. 20.1 and 19.20.

Nehemiah 9:33
Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly:
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Nehemiah 9:33 · retained source text

Howbeit, thou art iust in all that is brought vpon vs, for thou hast done right, but we haue done wickedly:

Nehemiah 12:31
Then I brought up the princes of Judah upon the wall, and appointed two great companies of them that gave thanks, whereof one went on the right hand upon the wall toward the dung gate:
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Nehemiah 12:31 · retained source text

Then I brought vp the princes of Iudah vpon the wall, and appointed two great companies of them that gaue thankes, whereof one went on the right hand vpon the wall toward the dounggate:

Esther 8:5
And said, If it please the king, and if I have found favour in his sight, and the thing seem right before the king, and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews which are in all the king’s provinces:
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1611 witness · Esther 8:5 · retained source text

And said, If it please the king, and if I haue found fauour in his sight, and the thing seeme right before the king, and I bee pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reuerse the letters deuised by Haman the sonne of Hammedatha the Agagite, which hee wrote to destroy the Iewes, which are in all the kings prouinces.

1611 marginal noteHeb. the deuice.

1611 marginal noteOr, who wrote.

Job 23:9
On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Job 23:9 · retained source text

On the left hand where hee doeth worke, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himselfe on the right hand, that I cannot see him.

Job 30:12
Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
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1611 witness · Job 30:12 · retained source text

Upon my right hand rise the youth, they push away my feete, and they raise vp against mee the wayes of their destruction.

Job 33:27
He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Job 33:27 · retained source text

He looketh vpon men, and if any say, I haue sinned, and peruerted that which was right, and it profited mee not:

1611 marginal noteOr, he shall looke vpon men, and say, I haue sinned, &c.

Job 34:17
Shall even he that hateth right govern? and wilt thou condemn him that is most just?
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Job 34:17 · retained source text

Shall euen he that hateth right, gouerne? and wilt thou condemne him that is most iust?

1611 marginal noteHeb. binde.

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