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1 Corinthians 12:17
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1 Corinthians 12:17
17If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?
17If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?
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1 Corinthians 12:17
Entire, complete, or undivided; also sound or restored to health, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
A physical body; a corpse; or an organized whole composed of members, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
The organ of sight; also to look upon or observe attentively.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Reach of the ear; extent within which sound may be heard. Audience; attention to what is delivered; opportunity to be heard.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Perceiving a scent by the nose or giving off an odor.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
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Open the full verse study13For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.
14I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
15My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
16Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
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Open the full verse study21And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
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Open the full verse study12The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made even both of them.
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Open the full verse study9He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
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Open the full verse study29Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles?
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Open the full verse study9(Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, thus he spake, Come, and let us go to the seer: for he that is now called a Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.)
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