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2 Thessalonians 3:8
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2 Thessalonians 3:8
8Neither did we eat any man’s bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you:
8Neither did wee eate any mans bread for nought: but wrought with labour and trauaile night and day, that wee might not bee chargeable to any of you.
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DEFINED WORDS
2 Thessalonians 3:8
To take food into the body; to consume, devour, or waste away, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
One, some, or every member or amount of an indefinite number or quantity, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · 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)
Except; excluding all others or alternatives.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Painful toil or labour, especially the labour and pain of childbirth.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828
The period of light between morning and evening; a complete daily cycle; or a specified time, age, or season, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Power or strength; also an auxiliary expressing possibility or permission.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
chargeable
Burdensome, causing expense.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
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Open the full verse study11Give us this day our daily bread.
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Open the full verse study9For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
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Open the full verse study3And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.
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Open the full verse study28Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
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Open the full verse study12And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
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Open the full verse study11And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
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Open the full verse study12Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
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Open the full verse study27She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.
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Open the full verse study9And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself.
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Open the full verse study34Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.
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