KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
1 Chronicles 4:40
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1 Chronicles 4:40
40And they found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for they of Ham had dwelt there of old.
40And they found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable: for they of Ham had dwelt there of old.
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DEFINED WORDS
1 Chronicles 4:40
Discovered, obtained, or encountered; or established upon a foundation, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Rich, well-fed, abundant, or fertile; also the oily substance of an animal.
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Ground on which animals feed; food or grazing for flocks.
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That which is right, beneficial, pleasing, useful, or morally upright.
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The ground or earth; a country, territory, or region.
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Broad, spacious, or having great extent.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Stillness, rest, peace, or freedom from disturbance; also calm or still, or to make calm.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Quiet; undisturbed; not agitated with passion.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Ham, a son of Noah and ancestor named in the genealogies; the name also identifies the land of Ham in KJV usage.
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Advanced in age; having existed a long time; former or belonging to an earlier time.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Open the full verse study7¶ Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people that were therein, how they dwelt careless, after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure; and there was no magistrate in the land, that might put them to shame in any thing; and they were far from the Zidonians, and had no business with any man.
8And they came unto their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brethren said unto them, What say ye?
9And they said, Arise, that we may go up against them: for we have seen the land, and, behold, it is very good: and are ye still? be not slothful to go, and to enter to possess the land.
10When ye go, ye shall come unto a people secure, and to a large land: for God hath given it into your hands; a place where there is no want of any thing that is in the earth.
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Open the full verse study6¶ And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.
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Open the full verse study22And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.
23And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness.
24And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.
25And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
26And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
27God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
28¶ And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
29And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.
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Open the full verse study23Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
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Open the full verse study51And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:
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