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Deuteronomy 19:16
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Deuteronomy 19:16
16¶ If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong;
16¶ If a false witnes rise vp against any man to testifie ‖against him that which is wrong:
- Or, falling away.
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DEFINED WORDS
Deuteronomy 19:16
Not solid or sound; deceiving expectations. Not faithful or loyal; treacherous; perfidious; deceitful.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
One who testifies from knowledge; testimony; as a verb, to see, attest, or testify.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To get up, ascend, appear, increase, begin, or come forth from rest or death.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Opposed to, contrary to, facing, toward, or in contact with; in some settings, exposed to or ready for a stated time.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
One, some, or every member or amount of an indefinite number or quantity, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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)
To bear witness, declare solemnly, or give evidence of something known.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Contrary to justice, truth, or right; as a verb, to injure or treat unjustly.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study12Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
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Open the full verse study11False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.
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Open the full verse study1THOU shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
2¶ Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:
3¶ Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.
4¶ If thou meet thine enemy’s ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.
5If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him.
6Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.
7Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.
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Open the full verse study10And set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against him, saying, Thou didst blaspheme God and the king. And then carry him out, and stone him, that he may die.
11And the men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who were the inhabitants in his city, did as Jezebel had sent unto them, and as it was written in the letters which she had sent unto them.
12They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.
13And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died.
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Open the full verse study13And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:
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Open the full verse study55And the chief priests and all the council sought for witness against Jesus to put him to death; and found none.
56For many bare false witness against him, but their witness agreed not together.
57And there arose certain, and bare false witness against him, saying,
58We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands.
59But neither so did their witness agree together.
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