KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
1 Kings 4:26–28
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1 Kings 4:26
26¶ And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.
26¶ And *Solomon had fourtie thousand stalles of horses for his charets, and twelue thousand horsemen.
- 2.Chro. 9.25.
1 Kings 4:27
27And those officers provided victual for king Solomon, and for all that came unto king Solomon’s table, every man in his month: they lacked nothing.
27And those officers prouided victuall for king Solomon, and for all that came vnto king Solomons table, euery man in his moneth: they lacked nothing.
1 Kings 4:28
28Barley also and straw for the horses and dromedaries brought they unto the place where the officers were, every man according to his charge.
28Barley also and straw for the horses and ‖dromedaries, brought they vnto the place where the officers were, euery man according to his charge.
- Or, mules, or swift beasts.
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DEFINED WORDS
1 Kings 4:26
The number equal to four times ten.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Enclosed places where cattle or other animals are kept and fed.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Large hoofed animals used for riding, drawing chariots, and war.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Wheeled vehicles used for travel or war.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828
Men who ride horses, especially soldiers serving on horseback.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828
DEFINED WORDS
1 Kings 4:27
Persons entrusted with an office, charge, authority, or oversight.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Supplied, furnished, prepared beforehand, or made available.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Food or provisions; as a verb, to supply with food or provisions.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
A sovereign ruler; one who reigns over a people or realm.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A flat surface or board; a place for food; a written tablet or list, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Each one of all; all taken separately, without exception in the stated group.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A human being; an adult male; a person, husband, servant, or representative, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To be without or in need of something; as a noun, want, shortage, or absence.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
No thing; not anything; of no value or effect.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
DEFINED WORDS
1 Kings 4:28
Dry stalks of grain used as fodder, bedding, or material for brick.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Large hoofed animals used for riding, drawing chariots, and war.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
dromedaries
Swift riding or burden-bearing camel-like animals.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
A location, position, room, occasion, office, or passage, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Persons entrusted with an office, charge, authority, or oversight.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Each one of all; all taken separately, without exception in the stated group.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A human being; an adult male; a person, husband, servant, or representative, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Agreeing or corresponding; in conformity with; as stated, measured, or directed by.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
To command, enjoin, entrust, accuse, or place under someone's care; as a noun, a command, duty, trust, accusation, or person or thing entrusted, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 26
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Open the full verse study14And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, which he placed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.
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Open the full verse study25¶ And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen; whom he bestowed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.
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Open the full verse study4And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: and David houghed all the chariot horses, but reserved of them for an hundred chariots.
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Open the full verse study25And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
26¶ And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he bestowed in the cities for chariots, and with the king at Jerusalem.
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Open the full verse study16But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the Lord hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.
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Open the full verse study7Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the Lord our God.
From verse 28
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Open the full verse study10And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus’ name, and sealed it with the king’s ring, and sent letters by posts on horseback, and riders on mules, camels, and young dromedaries:
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Open the full verse study14So the posts that rode upon mules and camels went out, being hastened and pressed on by the king’s commandment. And the decree was given at Shushan the palace.
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Open the full verse study13O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the swift beast: she is the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion: for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee.
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