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spake

Meaning of “spake”

The past tense of speak: uttered or expressed words, addressed someone, or communicated a matter in words.

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First occurrence: Genesis 8:15

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1 Chronicles 15:16
And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of musick, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · 1 Chronicles 15:16 · retained source text

And Dauid spake to the chiefe of the Leuites, to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of musicke, Psalteries, and Harpes, and Cymbales, sounding, by lifting vp the voice with ioy.

1 Chronicles 17:6
Wheresoever I have walked with all Israel, spake I a word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people, saying, Why have ye not built me an house of cedars?
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · 1 Chronicles 17:6 · retained source text

Wheresoeuer I haue walked with all Israel, spake I a word to any of the Iudges of Israel (whom I commanded to feed my people) saying, Why haue ye not built me an house of Cedars?

1 Chronicles 21:9
¶ And the Lord spake unto Gad, David’s seer, saying,
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · 1 Chronicles 21:9 · retained source text

¶ And the LORD spake vnto Gad, Dauids Seer, saying,

1 Chronicles 21:19
And David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spake in the name of the Lord.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · 1 Chronicles 21:19 · retained source text

And Dauid went vp at the saying of Gad, which he spake in the Name of the LORD.

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