KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Ezekiel 21:15–16
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Ezekiel 21:15
15I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter.
15‖‖I haue set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may faint, and their ruines be multiplied. Ah, it is made bright, it is wrapt vp for the slaughter.
- Or, glittering, or feare.
- Or, sharpened.
Ezekiel 21:16
16Go thee one way or other, either on the right hand, or on the left, whithersoever thy face is set.
16†Goe thee one way or other, either on the right hand, or on the left, whithersoeuer thy face is set.
- Heb. set thy selfe, take the left hand.
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DEFINED WORDS
Ezekiel 21:15
To place, fix, appoint, establish, or prescribe; also fixed or determined.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
A sharp end or exact place; a particular matter, moment, or degree; as a verb, to indicate or direct.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The bodily organ; more often in Scripture, the inward person—the mind, will, affections, conscience, or moral character—according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
To lose heart, courage, or perseverance.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Destructions, overthrows, decayed remains, or causes of loss; also destroys or causes to decay.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
multiplied
Increased in numbers.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Formed, caused, prepared, appointed, or brought into a stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Bound or enclosed for slaughter; the precise image in this expression is uncertain.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The killing of persons or animals, especially in great number; as a verb, to kill or slay.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
DEFINED WORDS
Ezekiel 21:16
The number one; a single person or thing; the same or united as a whole.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A different or additional person or thing; the remaining one of two or more.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Skeat 1893 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Straight, correct, just, proper, or belonging to a lawful claim; also the opposite of left.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The part of the body at the end of the arm; figuratively, power, possession, aid, or agency.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Departed from, allowed to remain, or abandoned.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
whithersoever
To whatever place or wherever the action leads.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To place, fix, appoint, establish, or prescribe; also fixed or determined.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
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From verse 15
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Open the full verse study10It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree.
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Open the full verse study27But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.
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Open the full verse study10And he also that is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, shall utterly melt: for all Israel knoweth that thy father is a mighty man, and they which be with him are valiant men.
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Open the full verse study7And I will set my face against them; they shall go out from one fire, and another fire shall devour them; and ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I set my face against them.
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Open the full verse study47And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the Lord; Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
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Open the full verse study22At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint battering rams against the gates, to cast a mount, and to build a fort.
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Open the full verse study28¶ And thou, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord God concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproach; even say thou, The sword, the sword is drawn: for the slaughter it is furbished, to consume because of the glittering:
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Open the full verse study7And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it cometh: and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it cometh, and shall be brought to pass, saith the Lord God.
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Open the full verse study14I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
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Open the full verse study17¶ Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off man and beast from it:
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Open the full verse study46And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.
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Open the full verse study20Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced.
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Open the full verse study4Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of his sheath against all flesh from the south to the north:
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Open the full verse study9Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
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