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Ecclesiastes 9:4
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Ecclesiastes 9:4
4¶ For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
4¶ For to him that is ioyned to all the liuing, there is hope: for a liuing dogge is better then a dead Lion.
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DEFINED WORDS
Ecclesiastes 9:4
Added; united; set or fastened together; associated; confederated.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
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Alive or having life; as a noun, one's means of support or possessions.
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Confident expectation or desire for good; as a verb, to expect with trust.
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A domestic canine; figuratively, a contemptible, hostile, or unclean person.
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More excellent, more fitting, or to a greater degree.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Without life; deprived of life; also lifeless, inactive, insensible, or separated from a former state by figure.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A large, powerful wild cat; figuratively, one fierce or strong.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study7For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
8Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;
9Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
10But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
11As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:
12So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
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Open the full verse study18For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
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Open the full verse study26And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.
27Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father’s house:
28For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.
29Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.
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Open the full verse study21This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
22¶ It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
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Open the full verse study8For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?
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