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skin

Meaning of “skin”

Sense 1: The natural outer covering of a person or animal; the hide or exterior covering. Sense 2: To strip off the skin or hide.

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77 occurrences66 verses10 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Exodus 22:27

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Lamentations 3:4
My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Lamentations 3:4 · retained source text

My flesh and my skinne hath he made old, he hath broken my bones.

Lamentations 4:8
Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Lamentations 4:8 · retained source text

Their visage is blacker then a cole: they are not knowen in the streets: their skinne cleaueth to their bones: it is withered, it is become like a sticke.

1611 marginal noteHeb. darker then blacknesse.

Lamentations 5:10
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Lamentations 5:10 · retained source text

Our skinne was blacke like an ouen, because of the terrible famine.

1611 marginal noteOr, terrors or stormes.

1611 marginal notePsal.11.38

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