The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with shame. Selah.
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Psalms 89:45 · retained source text
The dayes of his youth hast thou shortned: thou hast couered him with shame. Selah.
KJV dictionary & concordance
shortened
Meaning of “shortened”
Made shorter, reduced, or brought to an earlier end.
Definition sources
KJV context and cross-referencesWebster 1828
9 occurrences7 verses5 booksKJV PCE
Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Psalms 89:45
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Every verse containing “shortened”
He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Psalms 102:23 · retained source text
He weakened my strength in the way: he shortened my dayes.
1611 marginal noteHeb. afflicted.
The fear of the Lord prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Proverbs 10:27 · retained source text
The feare of the LORD prolongeth dayes: but the yeeres of the wicked shalbe shortened.
1611 marginal noteHebr. addeth.
1611 marginal noteChap.9.11.
Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Isaiah 50:2 · retained source text
Wherefore when I came was there no man? when I called, was there none to answere? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeeme? or haue I no power to deliuer? Beholde, at my rebuke I drie vp the sea: I make the riuers a wildernes: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.
1611 marginal noteNum. 11.23. chap. 59.1.
1611 marginal noteExod. 14.21.
1611 marginal noteIosh.3.16
BEHOLD, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Isaiah 59:1 · retained source text
¶ Beholde, the LORDs hand is not shortened, that it cannot saue: neither his eare heauie, that it cannot heare.
1611 marginal noteNum.11.23. chap.50.2.
And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Matthew 24:22 · retained source text
And except those dayes should be shortned, there should no flesh be saued: but for the elects sake, those dayes shall be shortned.
And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect’s sake, whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days.
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Mark 13:20 · retained source text
And except that the Lord had shortened those dayes, no flesh should be saued: but for the elects sake whome he hath chosen, he hath shortned the daies.
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Webster 1828
Open source edition ↗Made shorter; abridged; contracted.