KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
2 Kings 13:15–17
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2 Kings 13:15
15And Elisha said unto him, Take bow and arrows. And he took unto him bow and arrows.
15And Elisha said vnto him, Take bowe and arrowes. And he tooke vnto him bowe and arrowes.
2 Kings 13:16
16And he said to the king of Israel, Put thine hand upon the bow. And he put his hand upon it: and Elisha put his hands upon the king’s hands.
16And he said to the king of Israel, †Put thine hand vpon the bowe. And he put his hand vpon it: and Elisha put his hands vpon the kings hands.
- Heb. make thine hand to ride.
2 Kings 13:17
17And he said, Open the window eastward. And he opened it. Then Elisha said, Shoot. And he shot. And he said, The arrow of the Lord’s deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance from Syria: for thou shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek, till thou have consumed them.
17And he sayd, Open the window Eastward. And hee opened it. Then Elisha sayd, Shoote. And he shot. And he said; The arrowe of the LORDs deliuerance, and the arrowe of deliuerance from Syria: for thou shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek, till thou haue consumed them.
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DEFINED WORDS
2 Kings 13:15
Spoke, declared, reported, commanded, or expressed in words.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To receive, seize, carry, accept, choose, or lay hold of, with the exact sense determined by context.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
An inclination of the head, or a bending of the body, in token of reverence, respect, civility, or submission.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Pointed missiles shot from bows; figuratively, instruments or images of attack, judgment, pain, or sudden force, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
DEFINED WORDS
2 Kings 13:16
Spoke, declared, reported, commanded, or expressed in words.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A sovereign ruler; one who reigns over a people or realm.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The name given to Jacob and, by extension, his descendants, their nation, or the people so called in Scripture.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To place, set, lay, appoint, bring into a condition, or cause to be, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
The part of the body at the end of the arm; figuratively, power, possession, aid, or agency.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
An inclination of the head, or a bending of the body, in token of reverence, respect, civility, or submission.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
The end parts of the arms used for holding and working; also figures of power, possession, agency, or aid.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
DEFINED WORDS
2 Kings 13:17
Spoke, declared, reported, commanded, or expressed in words.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Unclosed, uncovered, or manifest; as a verb, to uncover, reveal, or explain.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
An opening or aperture in the wall or structure of a building, ship, or ark.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Toward or in the direction of the east.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Made open, uncovered, unsealed, revealed, or made accessible.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To send out; to push forth. To push out; to emit; to dart; to thrust forth.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Sent or launched a missile, arrow, or lightning from its source.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A pointed missile shot from a bow.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
LORD: The name of God the Father in English, from the Hebrew Tetragrammaton YHWH, also rendered GOD and JEHOVAH. Lord: A title applied to God and Christ as ruler and master, the one to whom worship and obedience are due. lord: A male master, owner, ruler, or superior addressed or described as one having authority.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
deliverance
Rescue, release, preservation, or victory from danger, bondage, or oppression.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The country or region of Syria north of Israel.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
To strike, beat, afflict, wound, or slay.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
People or inhabitants of Syria.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Until a stated time or event; also to cultivate the ground.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Wasted; burnt up; destroyed; dissipated; squandered; expended.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study34And he went up, and lay upon the child, and put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands: and he stretched himself upon the child; and the flesh of the child waxed warm.
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Open the full verse study24But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)
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Open the full verse study1BLESSED be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:
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Open the full verse study26And it came to pass at the return of the year, that Ben-hadad numbered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel.
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Open the full verse study10And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean.
11But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the Lord his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.
12Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage.
13And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?
14Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
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Open the full verse study18For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
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Open the full verse study39Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days.
40Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?
41Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me.
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Open the full verse study1AND the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out against the Philistines to battle, and pitched beside Eben-ezer: and the Philistines pitched in Aphek.
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Open the full verse study24And let it be, when thou hearest the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt bestir thyself: for then shall the Lord go out before thee, to smite the host of the Philistines.
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Open the full verse study17And thou shalt take this rod in thine hand, wherewith thou shalt do signs.
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Open the full verse study2And the Lord said unto him, What is that in thine hand? And he said, A rod.
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Open the full verse study5His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it.
6And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece.
7Jesus saith unto them, Fill the waterpots with water. And they filled them up to the brim.
8And he saith unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto the governor of the feast. And they bare it.
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Open the full verse study9¶ And it came to pass the same night, that the Lord said unto him, Arise, get thee down unto the host; for I have delivered it into thine hand.
10But if thou fear to go down, go thou with Phurah thy servant down to the host:
11And thou shalt hear what they say; and afterward shall thine hands be strengthened to go down unto the host. Then went he down with Phurah his servant unto the outside of the armed men that were in the host.
12And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude.
13And when Gideon was come, behold, there was a man that told a dream unto his fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of Midian, and came unto a tent, and smote it that it fell, and overturned it, that the tent lay along.
14And his fellow answered and said, This is nothing else save the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel: for into his hand hath God delivered Midian, and all the host.
15¶ And it was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he worshipped, and returned into the host of Israel, and said, Arise; for the Lord hath delivered into your hand the host of Midian.
16And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man’s hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers.
17And he said unto them, Look on me, and do likewise: and, behold, when I come to the outside of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so shall ye do.
18When I blow with a trumpet, I and all that are with me, then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon.
19¶ So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands.
20And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon.
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