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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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Psalms 80:13
The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Psalms 80:13 · retained source text

The boare out of the wood doth waste it: and the wild beast of the field doth deuoure it.

Isaiah 5:6
And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Isaiah 5:6 · retained source text

And I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned, nor digged, but there shall come vp briars and thornes: I will also command the cloudes, that they raine no raine vpon it.

Isaiah 5:17
Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Isaiah 5:17 · retained source text

Then shall the lambes feed after their maner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eate.

Isaiah 15:1
THE burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence;
2 word occurrences in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Isaiah 15:1 · retained source text

¶ The burden of Moab: because in the night Ar of Moab is laide waste and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laide waste, and brought to silence:

1611 marginal noteOr, cut off.

Isaiah 23:1
THE burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Isaiah 23:1 · retained source text

¶ The burden of Tyre. Howle yee ships of Tarshish, for it is laide waste, so that there is no house, no entring in: from the land of Chittim it is reuealed to them.

Isaiah 24:1
BEHOLD, the Lord maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Isaiah 24:1 · retained source text

¶ Behold, the LORD maketh the earth emptie, and maketh it waste, and turneth it vpside downe, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.

1611 marginal noteHeb. peruerteth the face thereof.

Isaiah 33:8
The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Isaiah 33:8 · retained source text

The high wayes lye waste; the way faring man ceaseth: he hath broken the couenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.

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