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very

Meaning of “very”

Sense 1: Truly, actually, exactly, or the same in identity. Sense 2: To a great or marked degree, used to intensify the quality named.

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First occurrence: Genesis 1:31

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Jeremiah 2:12
Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the Lord.
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 2:12 · retained source text

Be astonished, O yee heauens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be yee very desolate, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 4:19
¶ My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 4:19 · retained source text

¶ My bowels, my bowels, I am pained at my very heart, my heart maketh a noise in mee, I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soule, the sound of the Trumpet, the alarme of warre.

1611 marginal noteHebr. the walles of my heart.

1611 marginal noteIsa.22.4. chap.9.1.

Jeremiah 5:11
For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith the Lord.
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 5:11 · retained source text

For the house of Israel, and the house of Iudah haue dealt very treacherously against me, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 12:1
RIGHTEOUS art thou, O Lord, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 12:1 · retained source text

¶ Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I pleade with thee: yet let mee talke with thee of thy iudgements: Wherefore doeth the way of the wicked prosper? Wherefore are all they happie that deale very treacherously?

1611 marginal noteOr, let me reason the case with thee.

1611 marginal noteIob 21.7. psal. 37.1. and 73.3. hab. 1.3.

Jeremiah 14:17
¶ Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 14:17 · retained source text

¶ Therefore thou shalt say this word vnto them, Let mine eies runne downe with teares night and day, and let them not cease, for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grieuous blow.

1611 marginal noteLam. 1.16. and 2.18. chap. 13.17.

Jeremiah 18:13
Therefore thus saith the Lord; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing.
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 18:13 · retained source text

Therefore thus saith the LORD, Aske ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things? the Uirgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing.

1611 marginal noteChap. 2.10.

Jeremiah 20:15
Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 20:15 · retained source text

Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying: A man child is borne vnto thee, making him very glad.

1611 marginal noteIob.3.3. chap. 15.10.

Jeremiah 24:2
One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 24:2 · retained source text

One basket had very good figges, euen like the figges that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figges, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.

1611 marginal noteHeb. for badnesse.

Jeremiah 24:3
Then said the Lord unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 24:3 · retained source text

Then said the LORD vnto me; What seest thou Ieremiah? and I said: Figges: the good figges, very good and the euill, very euill, that cannot be eaten, they are so euill.

Jeremiah 27:7
And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son’s son, until the very time of his land come: and then many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of him.
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 27:7 · retained source text

And all nations shall serue him and his sonne, and his sonnes sonne, vntill the very time of his land come: and then many nations and great kings shall serue themselues of him.

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