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Acts 27:18
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Acts 27:18
18And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next day they lightened the ship;
18And being exceedingly tossed with a tempest the next day, they lightened the ship:
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Acts 27:18
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exceedingly
To a very great, intense, or unusual degree.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Thrown upward suddenly or with a jerk; made to rise and fall suddenly.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A violent storm of wind, often with rain or waves.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Nearest or immediately succeeding in place, time, order, or turn.
Meaning drawn from: 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)
To make light or give light; to illuminate, enlighten, flash, or relieve a burden.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A vessel for travel or transport on water.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study5Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.
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Open the full verse study38And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, and cast out the wheat into the sea.
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Open the full verse study1WHEREFORE seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
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Open the full verse study26For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
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Open the full verse study19And the third day we cast out with our own hands the tackling of the ship.
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Open the full verse study8And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.
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Open the full verse study7But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
8Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
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Open the full verse study27They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits’ end.
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