KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Acts 27:36–38
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Acts 27:36
36Then were they all of good cheer, and they also took some meat.
36Then were they all of good cheere, and they also tooke some meat.
Acts 27:37
37And we were in all in the ship two hundred threescore and sixteen souls.
37And we were in all, in the ship, two hundred, threescore and sixteene soules.
Acts 27:38
38And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, and cast out the wheat into the sea.
38And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, and cast out the wheat into the sea.
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DEFINED WORDS
Acts 27:36
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
That which is right, beneficial, pleasing, useful, or morally upright.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Gladness, courage, or an encouraging countenance; also to comfort or encourage.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
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Acts 27:37
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A vessel for travel or transport on water.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The number equal to one and one.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The number equal to ten times ten.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
threescore
Thrice twenty; sixty.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Six and ten; noting the sum of six and ten.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Acts 27:38
Chewed and swallowed; also consumed or corroded.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
As much as is needed or sufficient for the thing named.
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)
To throw, send forth, place, reckon, or discard, with the exact sense determined by context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Outside, away from within, forth, absent, or no longer in a stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A grain-bearing plant and its seed, commonly ground into flour for bread.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
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From verse 36
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Open the full verse study4Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
5For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.
6And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.
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Open the full verse study22And now I exhort you to be of good cheer: for there shall be no loss of any man’s life among you, but of the ship.
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Open the full verse study14Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.
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Open the full verse study25Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer: for I believe God, that it shall be even as it was told me.
From verse 37
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Open the full verse study41¶ Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.
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Open the full verse study20Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
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Open the full verse study14Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.
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Open the full verse study1LET every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
From verse 38
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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 study25Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
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Open the full verse study18And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next day they lightened the ship;
19And the third day we cast out with our own hands the tackling of the ship.
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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 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 study4And Satan answered the Lord, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.
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