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2 Kings 5:7
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2 Kings 5:7
7And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy? wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me.
7And it came to passe when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make aliue, that this man doeth send vnto me, to recouer a man of his leprosie? Wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrell against me.
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DEFINED WORDS
2 Kings 5:7
To go by, through, over, or beyond; to happen, cease, or be transferred.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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 utter or pronounce written or printed words, letters or characters in the proper order; to repeat the names or utter the sounds customarily annexed to words, letters or characters.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
A written message or epistle; also a character of writing.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To rend: to tear or split apart; as a noun, a tear or split, or payment for the use of property, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Garments, dress, or cloth coverings and wrappings worn on or around the body.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 (facsimile-linked witness) · Strong's Exhaustive Concordance 1890 (occurrence-specific) · KJV usage (PCE)
Spoke, declared, reported, commanded, or expressed in words.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A deity or object of worship; when referring to the LORD, the one true God.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To deprive of life; to slay or destroy.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To cause to become the stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Living; having life; not dead. By extension, continuing in life, force, or activity.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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 heal or return to health.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A condition called leprosy in the KJV, identified in the law by specified signs in skin, flesh, hair, garments, or houses; it is not equated here with one modern disease.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Why; for what reason.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To think upon carefully; to examine, observe, regard, or take into account.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To perceive with the eyes; to behold, observe, understand, consider, experience, or take heed, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
A cause of complaint, grievance, or dispute.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Opposed to, contrary to, facing, toward, or in contact with; in some settings, exposed to or ready for a stated time.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
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Open the full verse study6The Lord killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.
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Open the full verse study7Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, Mark, I pray you, and see how this man seeketh mischief: for he sent unto me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I denied him not.
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Open the full verse study2And Jacob’s anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in God’s stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?
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Open the full verse study39See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
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Open the full verse study11And it is a rare thing that the king requireth, and there is none other that can shew it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.
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Open the full verse study1COME, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
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Open the full verse study54Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.
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Open the full verse study14And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a pillar, as the manner was, and the princes and the trumpeters by the king, and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew with trumpets: and Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried, Treason, Treason.
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Open the full verse study14Which when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of, they rent their clothes, and ran in among the people, crying out,
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Open the full verse study29O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
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Open the full verse study24Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words.
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Open the full verse study65Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He hath spoken blasphemy; what further need have we of witnesses? behold, now ye have heard his blasphemy.
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Open the full verse study6¶ And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:
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