KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Acts 7:24–25
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Acts 7:24
24And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian:
24*And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and auenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian:
- Exo. 2.11.
Acts 7:25
25For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not.
25For he supposed his brethren would haue vnderstood, how that God by his hand would deliuer them, but they vnderstood not.
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DEFINED WORDS
Acts 7:24
The number one; a single person or thing; the same or united as a whole.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To bear, undergo, or endure pain, loss, or hardship; also to allow or permit.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Contrary to justice, truth, or right; as a verb, to injure or treat unjustly.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Protected, maintained, or upheld against attack or opposition.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Punished or repaid a wrong; executed vengeance or judgment.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Burdened, afflicted, or wronged by force or authority.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604
Struck, beat, wounded, afflicted, or slew.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
DEFINED WORDS
Acts 7:25
Laid down or imagined as true; imagined; believed; received as true.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Brothers; near kindred; fellow Israelites; or fellow believers, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
understood
Comprehended, perceived the meaning, or knew with the mind.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A deity or object of worship; when referring to the LORD, the one true God.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The part of the body at the end of the arm; figuratively, power, possession, aid, or agency.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To rescue, set free, hand over, give up, or bring forth, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
But; marking a contrast or qualification in the sentence.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 24
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Open the full verse study10Then Simon Peter having a sword drew it, and smote the high priest’s servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant’s name was Malchus.
11Then said Jesus unto Peter, Put up thy sword into the sheath: the cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?
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Open the full verse study28Wilt thou kill me, as thou diddest the Egyptian yesterday?
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Open the full verse study25And Simon Peter stood and warmed himself. They said therefore unto him, Art not thou also one of his disciples? He denied it, and said, I am not.
26One of the servants of the high priest, being his kinsman whose ear Peter cut off, saith, Did not I see thee in the garden with him?
27Peter then denied again: and immediately the cock crew.
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Open the full verse study10But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
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Open the full verse study1WE then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
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Open the full verse study34And they understood none of these things: and this saying was hid from them, neither knew they the things which were spoken.
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Open the full verse study45But they understood not this saying, and it was hid from them, that they perceived it not: and they feared to ask him of that saying.
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Open the full verse study9For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.
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Open the full verse study45And the people said unto Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel? God forbid: as the Lord liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he hath wrought with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, that he died not.
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Open the full verse study5For he did put his life in his hand, and slew the Philistine, and the Lord wrought a great salvation for all Israel: thou sawest it, and didst rejoice: wherefore then wilt thou sin against innocent blood, to slay David without a cause?
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Open the full verse study1NOW Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the Lord had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, but he was a leper.
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Open the full verse study27And when they were come, and had gathered the church together, they rehearsed all that God had done with them, and how he had opened the door of faith unto the Gentiles.
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Open the full verse study4And when they were come to Jerusalem, they were received of the church, and of the apostles and elders, and they declared all things that God had done with them.
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Open the full verse study7And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.
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Open the full verse study19And when he had saluted them, he declared particularly what things God had wrought among the Gentiles by his ministry.
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Open the full verse study29Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
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Open the full verse study32But they understood not that saying, and were afraid to ask him.
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Open the full verse study7Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea.
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Open the full verse study18For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed,
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