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wert

Meaning of “wert”

The second-person singular past tense of be.

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6 occurrences5 verses4 booksKJV PCE

Some verses contain the word more than once.

First occurrence: Job 8:6

Complete exact-word concordance

Every verse containing “wert”

KJV PCE
Song of Solomon 8:1
O THAT thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, I should not be despised.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Song of Solomon 8:1 · retained source text

¶ O that thou wert as my brother that sucked the brests of my mother, when I should find thee without, I would kisse thee, yet I should not be despised.

1611 marginal noteHebr. they should not despise me.

Romans 11:17
And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Romans 11:17 · retained source text

And if some of the branches bee broken off, and thou being a wilde oliue tree wert graffed in amongst them, and with them partakest of the roote and fatnesse of the Oliue tree:

1611 marginal noteOr, for them.

Romans 11:24
For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?
2 word occurrences in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Romans 11:24 · retained source text

For if thou wert cut out of the Oliue tree which is wilde by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good Oliue tree: how much more shall these which be the naturall branches, bee graffed into their owne Oliue tree?

Revelation 3:15
I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Revelation 3:15 · retained source text

I know thy workes, that thou art neither cold nor hot, I would thou wert cold or hot.

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