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Genesis 1:16
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Genesis 1:16
16And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
16And God made two great lights: the greater light †to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the starres also.
- Hebr. for the rule of the day, &c.
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DEFINED WORDS
Genesis 1:16
A deity or object of worship; when referring to the LORD, the one true God.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Formed, caused, prepared, appointed, or brought into a stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
The number equal to one and one.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Sources of illumination or visible brightness; also kindles, illuminates, or comes down upon, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Visible brightness; something that gives illumination; not heavy; to kindle, illuminate, or come down upon, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
An established standard or direction; authority or government; as a verb, to govern, direct, or exercise authority.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The period of light between morning and evening; a complete daily cycle; or a specified time, age, or season, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Smaller, younger, or lower in rank, degree, or importance.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Lights in the heavens; also figures of rulers, angels, or persons, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Open the full verse study7To him that made great lights: for his mercy endureth for ever:
8The sun to rule by day: for his mercy endureth for ever:
9The moon and stars to rule by night: for his mercy endureth for ever.
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Open the full verse study19And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
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Open the full verse study3When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
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Open the full verse study26Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.
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Open the full verse study5Let them praise the name of the Lord: for he commanded, and they were created.
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Open the full verse study16The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
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Open the full verse study7When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
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Open the full verse study3Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light.
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Open the full verse study41There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory.
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Open the full verse study11The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear.
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Open the full verse study10For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
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Open the full verse study7I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.
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Open the full verse study45Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.
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Open the full verse study6His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
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Open the full verse study8And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
9And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.
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Open the full verse study23Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the Lord of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
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Open the full verse study26If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;
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Open the full verse study12¶ Then spake Joshua to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
13And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.
14And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the Lord hearkened unto the voice of a man: for the Lord fought for Israel.
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Open the full verse study29¶ Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
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Open the full verse study23And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
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