They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
The 1611 reading
They set their mouth against the heauens; and their tongue walketh through the earth.
KJV dictionary & concordance
1. To put or place a person or thing in a position, relation, or condition; when passive, to be so placed, fixed, or adorned. 2. To establish, fix, appoint, assign, prescribe, or determine. 3. To arrange, prepare, present, display, or put in order or array. 4. To direct, turn, or firmly apply the face, heart, eyes, mind, affection, or action toward something. 5. To start, advance, send out, proceed on a course or work, or make an attack, as in set forward, set forth, or set upon where those meanings apply. 6. To value or esteem; or, in set at nought or set light by, to despise. 7. Of the sun, to go down.
Definition sources
Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Genesis 1:17
Complete exact-word concordance
They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
They set their mouth against the heauens; and their tongue walketh through the earth.
Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.
Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them downe into destruction.
Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.
Thine enemies roare in the midst of thy congregations: they set vp their ensignes for signes.
Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.
Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: Thou hast made Summer and Winter.
1611 marginal noteHeb. made them.
That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:
That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God: but keepe his Commandements,
And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
And might not bee as their fathers, a stubborne and rebellious generation, a generation that set not their heart aright: and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
1611 marginal noteHebr. that prepared not their heart.
Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in the way of his steps.
Righteousnes shall go before him: and shall set vs in the way of his steps.
O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them.
O God, the proud are risen against mee, and the assemblies of violent men haue sought after my soule: and haue not set thee before them.
1611 marginal noteHebr. terrible.
I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.
I will set his hand also in the sea: and his right hand in the riuers.
Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries; thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.
Thou hast set vp the right hand of his aduersaries: thou hast made all his enemies to reioyce.
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Historical English dictionary sources
Placed; put; located; fixed; adjusted; composed; studded or adorned; reduced, as a dislocated or broken bone. Fixed in opinion; determined; firm; obstinate. Established; prescribed.