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sore

Meaning of “sore”

Sense 1: Painful, grievous, severe, or causing distress. Sense 2: Greatly, exceedingly, or intensely. Sense 3: A wound, ulcer, or tender or diseased place.

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First occurrence: Genesis 19:9

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Ezekiel 14:21
For thus saith the Lord God; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Ezekiel 14:21 · retained source text

For thus saith the LORD God, How much more when I send my foure sore iudgements vpon Ierusalem; the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?

1611 marginal noteOr, also when.

Ezekiel 21:10
It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Ezekiel 21:10 · retained source text

It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is fourbished, that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? It contemneth the rod of my sonne, as euery tree.

1611 marginal noteOr, it is the rod of my sonne, it despiseth euery tree.

Ezekiel 27:35
All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee, and their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in their countenance.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Ezekiel 27:35 · retained source text

All the inhabitants of the Iles shall bee astonished at thee, and their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in their countenance.

Daniel 6:14
Then the king, when he heard these words, was sore displeased with himself, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him: and he laboured till the going down of the sun to deliver him.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Daniel 6:14 · retained source text

Then the king, when hee heard these wordes, was sore displeased with himselfe, and set his heart on Daniel to deliuer him: and he laboured till the going downe of the sunne, to deliuer him.

Micah 2:10
Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.
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1611 witness · Micah 2:10 · retained source text

Arise ye and depart, for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you euen with a sore destruction.

Zechariah 1:2
The Lord hath been sore displeased with your fathers.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Zechariah 1:2 · retained source text

The LORD hath bene sore displeased with your fathers.

1611 marginal noteHebr. with displeasure.

Zechariah 1:15
And I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at ease: for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Zechariah 1:15 · retained source text

And I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at ease: for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction.

Matthew 17:6
And when the disciples heard it, they fell on their face, and were sore afraid.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Matthew 17:6 · retained source text

And when the disciples heard it, they fell on their face, and were sore afraid.

Matthew 17:15
Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is lunatick, and sore vexed: for ofttimes he falleth into the fire, and oft into the water.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Matthew 17:15 · retained source text

Lord, haue mercie on my sonne, for he is lunatike, and sore vexed: for oft times he falleth into the fire, and oft into the water.

Matthew 21:15
And when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, Hosanna to the Son of David; they were sore displeased,
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Matthew 21:15 · retained source text

And when the chiefe Priests and Scribes saw the wonderfull things that he did, & the children crying in the temple, & saying, Hosanna to the sonne of Dauid, they were sore displeased,

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