I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
The 1611 reading
I am gone like the shadow, when it declineth: I am tossed vp and downe as the locust.
KJV dictionary & concordance
Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of toss, meaning to throw or move violently to and fro.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Psalms 109:23
Complete exact-word concordance
I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
I am gone like the shadow, when it declineth: I am tossed vp and downe as the locust.
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue, is a vanitie tossed to and fro of them that seeke death.
1611 marginal noteChap. 10.2. and 13.11.
¶ O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.
¶ Oh thou afflicted, tossed with tempest and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with faire colours, and lay thy foundations with Saphires.
1611 marginal note1.Chron. 29.2.
But the ship was now in the midst of the sea, tossed with waves: for the wind was contrary.
But the ship was now in the midst of the Sea, tossed with waues: for the wind was contrary.
And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next day they lightened the ship;
And being exceedingly tossed with a tempest the next day, they lightened the ship:
That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
That we hencefoorth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and caried about with euery winde of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftinesse, whereby they lye in waite to deceiue:
But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
But let him aske in faith, nothing wauering: for he that wauereth is like a waue of the sea, driuen with the wind, and tossed.
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