KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Deuteronomy 4:16–17
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Deuteronomy 4:16
16Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
16Lest yee corrupt your selues, and make you a grauen image, the similitude of any figure, the likenes of male, or female,
Deuteronomy 4:17
17The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,
17The likenesse of any beast that is on the earth, the likenes of any winged foule that flieth in the aire,
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DEFINED WORDS
Deuteronomy 4:16
That not; for fear that.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Subject to decay or physical ruin.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To form, produce, cause, or carry out what the verse states.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A likeness, representation, or visible form; often an idol when made or used as an object of worship.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
similitude
Likeness; resemblance; likeness in nature, qualities of appearance; a likeness; Comparison, parable.
Meaning drawn from: Bullokar 1616 · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828
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 form, shape, likeness, pattern, or symbolic representation.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Resemblance in form; similitude.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Of the sex that begets offspring; a man or male animal.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Of the sex that bears offspring; a woman or female animal.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604 · Webster 1828
DEFINED WORDS
Deuteronomy 4:17
Resemblance in form; similitude.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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)
The ground or dry land; the world or inhabited realm; or a country and its people, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE)
Having or furnished with wings; capable of winged flight.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A bird, especially one used for food or sacrifice.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To move through the air; to flee or move swiftly away; or a winged insect, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
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From verse 16
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Open the full verse study29Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device.
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Open the full verse study23Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the Lord your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the Lord thy God hath forbidden thee.
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Open the full verse study8Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth:
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Open the full verse study4Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
5Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
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Open the full verse study22Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
24Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
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Open the full verse study7¶ And the Lord said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves:
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Open the full verse study4And there accompanied him into Asia Sopater of Berea; and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; and Gaius of Derbe, and Timotheus; and of Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus.
5These going before tarried for us at Troas.
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Open the full verse study25¶ When thou shalt beget children, and children’s children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the Lord thy God, to provoke him to anger:
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Open the full verse study8And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?
9Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons’ sons;
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Open the full verse study18¶ To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?
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Open the full verse study24God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
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Open the full verse study19They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image.
20Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.
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Open the full verse study17Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.
From verse 17
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Open the full verse study23And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
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