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waste

Meaning of “waste”

Sense 1: Desolate, ruined, devastated, or uncultivated. Sense 2: Ruin, desolation, or needless loss. Sense 3: To consume, devour, destroy, ravage, or desolate.

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64 occurrences62 verses21 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Leviticus 26:31

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Jeremiah 2:15
The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 2:15 · retained source text

The young lyons roared vpon him and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burnt without inhabitant.

1611 marginal noteHeb. gaue out their voyce.

Jeremiah 4:7
The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 4:7 · retained source text

The Lion is come vp from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; hee is gone foorth from his place to make thy land desolate, and thy cities shall be layed waste, without an inhabitant.

Jeremiah 46:19
O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant.
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 46:19 · retained source text

Oh thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thy selfe to goe into captiuitie: for Noph shalbe waste and desolate without an inhabitant.

1611 marginal noteHeb. make thee instruments of captiuitie.

Jeremiah 49:13
For I have sworn by myself, saith the Lord, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 49:13 · retained source text

For I haue sworne by my selfe, saith the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproch, a waste, and a curse, and all the cities thereof shall be perpetuall wastes.

Jeremiah 50:21
¶ Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the Lord, and do according to all that I have commanded thee.
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 50:21 · retained source text

¶ Goe vp against the land of Merathaim, euen against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and vtterly destroy after them, sayeth the LORD, and doe according to all that I haue commanded thee.

1611 marginal noteOr, of the rebels.

1611 marginal noteOr, visitation.

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