Ezekiel 32:8
All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord God.
††All the bright lights of heauen will I make darke ouer thee, and set darkenesse vpon thy land, saith the LORD God.
Original 1611 marginTranslation notes and cross-references are kept distinct.
- †Hebrew wordingHeb. lights of the light in heauen.
- †Hebrew wordingHeb. them darke.
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- Genesis 1:14Rank 1 from verse 8
14¶ And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
14¶ And God said, Let there bee *lights in the firmament of the heauen, to diuide †the day from the night: and let them be for signes and for seasons, and for dayes and yeeres.
- Proverbs 20:20Rank 2 from verse 8
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Ezekiel 32:8
Sources of illumination or visible brightness.
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Sense 1: The firmament or expanse above the earth, including the sky and the region of the sun, moon, stars, clouds, rain, and flying creatures. Sense 2: The realm above spoken of as God's throne and dwelling place, and as the place of angels, heavenly beings, and the righteous. Sense 3: By metonymy, God, heavenly authority or source, or those who dwell there.
Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828
To form, create, produce, cause, appoint, perform, or render into a stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893
Sense 1: Without light or having little light. Sense 2: Obscure, hidden, or not understood. Sense 3: Darkness or a place or time without light.
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1. To put or place a person or thing in a position, relation, or condition; when passive, to be so placed, fixed, or adorned. 2. To establish, fix, appoint, assign, prescribe, or determine. 3. To arrange, prepare, present, display, or put in order or array. 4. To direct, turn, or firmly apply the face, heart, eyes, mind, affection, or action toward something. 5. To start, advance, send out, proceed on a course or work, or make an attack, as in set forward, set forth, or set upon where those meanings apply. 6. To value or esteem; or, in set at nought or set light by, to despise. 7. Of the sun, to go down.
Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828
Sense 1: Absence of light. Sense 2: Obscurity, ignorance, distress, or moral evil by figure.
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1. Marks the person, place, thing, or basis to which something is related: on or onto; above or over; toward or against as the target of action, speech, thought, attention, or force; resting on, assigned to, or affecting as a state, gift, burden, duty, guilt, or judgment; supported by or based on; or one placed, added, or repeated on or after another. 2. With a stated time or occasion, or a preceding event, at that time or point, or at or after that event: on, at, when, then, or following it.
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Sense 1: The ground or earth; a country, territory, or region. Sense 2: To set or come on shore.
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1. A title of God or Jesus Christ acknowledging authority and rule. 2. A respectful title or address for one in authority.
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The divine name of the living God, used chiefly in the title Lord GOD.
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7And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.
7‖*And when I shall put thee out, I wil couer the heauen, and make the starres thereof darke: I will couer the sunne with a cloud, and the moone shall not giue her light.
8All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord God.
8††All the bright lights of heauen will I make darke ouer thee, and set darkenesse vpon thy land, saith the LORD God.
Selected passage9I will also vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring thy destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not known.
9†I wil also vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring thy destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not knowen.