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Exodus 2:17
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Exodus 2:17
17And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
17And the shepheards came and droue them away: but Moses stood vp and helped them, & watred their flocke.
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DEFINED WORDS
Exodus 2:17
Forced, moved, or sent away or onward; past tense of drive.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
But; marking a contrast or qualification in the sentence.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Aid, assistance, or relief; as a verb, to aid, assist, or support.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828
Supplied, covered, or made wet with water; figuratively, refreshed or caused to flourish.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study10And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother’s brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother’s brother.
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Open the full verse study25And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.
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Open the full verse study12And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
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Open the full verse study15For all the wells which his father’s servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth.
16And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we.
17¶ And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.
18And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.
19And Isaac’s servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.
20And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac’s herdmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him.
21And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.
22And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the Lord hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.
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