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Acts 1:20
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Acts 1:20
20For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his habitation be desolate, and let no man dwell therein: and his bishoprick let another take.
20*For it is written in the booke of Psalmes, Let his habitation be desolate, and let no man dwell therein: *And his ‖Bishopricke let another take.
- Or, office: or, charge.
- Psal. 69.26.
- Psal. 109.7.
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DEFINED WORDS
Acts 1:20
To write: to set down, record, or communicate in letters or writing.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Sacred songs or hymns, especially songs of praise to God.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
habitation
A dwelling place.
Meaning drawn from: Bullokar 1616
Forsaken, bereft, or left without help or company.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604 · 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)
One more; an additional or different person or thing.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE)
To receive, seize, carry, accept, choose, or lay hold of, with the exact sense determined by context.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
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Open the full verse study25Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.
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Open the full verse study8Let his days be few; and let another take his office.
9Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
10Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
11Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.
12Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.
13Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
14Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the Lord; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
15Let them be before the Lord continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
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Open the full verse study25That he may take part of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place.
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Open the full verse study44And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.
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Open the full verse study33God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.
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Open the full verse study42And David himself saith in the book of Psalms, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,
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Open the full verse study3Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to it.
4I will bring it forth, saith the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.
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