KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
2 Samuel 18:14–15
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2 Samuel 18:14
14Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.
14Then said Ioab, I may not tary thus †with thee. And hee tooke three darts in his hand, and thrust them thorow the heart of Absalom, while hee was yet aliue in the †midst of the Oke.
- Hebr. before thee.
- Heb. heart.
2 Samuel 18:15
15And ten young men that bare Joab’s armour compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him.
15And ten yong men that bare Ioabs armour, compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him.
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DEFINED WORDS
2 Samuel 18:14
Spoke, declared, reported, commanded, or expressed in words.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To stay, remain, wait, or delay.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
The number following two and preceding four.
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)
From one side or end to another; by means of; throughout; or because of, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The bodily organ; more often in Scripture, the inward person—the mind, will, affections, conscience, or moral character—according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Living; having life; not dead. By extension, continuing in life, force, or activity.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The middle or central part; the position among or surrounded by others.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · KJV usage (PCE)
A large, strong tree of the oak kind.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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2 Samuel 18:15
Early in life or growth; not mature; also offspring, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Uncovered or naked; also carried, endured, or produced, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To go all round or all over; Circumference, circuit.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Skeat 1893
Around, concerning, near, or engaged in; on every side or approximately, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Struck, beat, wounded, afflicted, or slew.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Open the full verse study3For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
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Open the full verse study30Therefore he said unto his servants, See, Joab’s field is near mine, and he hath barley there; go and set it on fire. And Absalom’s servants set the field on fire.
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Open the full verse study5And the king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Deal gently for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom. And all the people heard when the king gave all the captains charge concerning Absalom.
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Open the full verse study21Then Jael Heber’s wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.
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Open the full verse study26She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen’s hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.
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Open the full verse study31So let all thine enemies perish, O Lord: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.
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Open the full verse study40For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
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Open the full verse study5Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.
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