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1 Samuel 2:4
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1 Samuel 2:4
4The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength.
4The vowes of the mightie men are broken, and they that stumbled are girt with strength.
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DEFINED WORDS
1 Samuel 2:4
Curved weapons for shooting arrows; bendings or inclinations of the body; or, as a verb, bends, stoops, or submits, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828
Possessing or displaying great strength, power, ability, rank, or effect.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Lost footing, tripped, or fell; figuratively, faltered or took offence at an obstacle.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Bound; surrounded; invested; put on.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Power, force, firmness, ability, endurance, or that which gives support.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Open the full verse study15Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.
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Open the full verse study3There brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah.
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Open the full verse study13I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
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Open the full verse study9He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.
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Open the full verse study9And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
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Open the full verse study34Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.
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Open the full verse study4Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
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Open the full verse study17For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the Lord upholdeth the righteous.
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Open the full verse study9Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
10Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
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Open the full verse study10For though ye had smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans that fight against you, and there remained but wounded men among them, yet should they rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with fire.
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Open the full verse study14Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
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