Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.
The 1611 reading
Truth shall spring out of the earth: and righteousnesse shall looke downe from heauen.
KJV dictionary & concordance
1. To rise, emerge, grow, or come forth. 2. A source or outlet of flowing water. 3. The dawn or beginning of day. 4. New growth or shoots that spring from a plant.
Definition sources
Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Numbers 21:17
Complete exact-word concordance
Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.
Truth shall spring out of the earth: and righteousnesse shall looke downe from heauen.
When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:
When the wicked spring as the grasse, and when all the workers of iniquitie doe flourish: it is that they shall be destroyed for euer.
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Historical English dictionary sources
To dawn; as a noun, dawn.