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Acts 8:19
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Acts 8:19
19Saying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost.
19Saying, Giue me also this power, that on whomsoeuer I lay handes, hee may receiue the holy Ghost.
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DEFINED WORDS
Acts 8:19
To grant, hand, offer, supply, yield, or cause to have.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Ability, strength, authority, dominion, or the right and capacity to act.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Place or set down; also rested or remained in a recumbent position, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
The end parts of the arms used for holding and working; also figures of power, possession, agency, or aid.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To take, accept, admit, welcome, or obtain what is given or presented.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Belonging to God or set apart for him; sacred; morally pure. Applied to God, it expresses his perfect purity; in Holy Ghost or Holy Spirit, it identifies the Spirit of God.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
The spirit; in 'give up the ghost,' to yield the spirit and die.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
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Open the full verse study7¶ And he put forth a parable to those which were bidden, when he marked how they chose out the chief rooms; saying unto them,
8When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room; lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him;
9And he that bade thee and him come and say to thee, Give this man place; and thou begin with shame to take the lowest room.
10But when thou art bidden, go and sit down in the lowest room; that when he that bade thee cometh, he may say unto thee, Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee.
11For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
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Open the full verse study9I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not.
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Open the full verse study44How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?
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Open the full verse study1AT the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?
2And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them,
3And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
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Open the full verse study8And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.
9For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
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Open the full verse study17Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.
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Open the full verse study9But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one:
10To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God.
11And to him they had regard, because that of long time he had bewitched them with sorceries.
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