KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Genesis 1:21–22
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Genesis 1:21
21And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
21And God created great whales, and euery liuing creature that moueth, which the waters brought forth aboundantly after their kinde, and euery winged foule after his kinde: and God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:22
22And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
22And God blessed them, saying, *Be fruitfull, and multiply, and fill the waters in the Seas, and let foule multiply in the earth.
- Chap. 8.17. and 9.1.
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DEFINED WORDS
Genesis 1:21
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 from nothing; caused to exist; produced; generated; invested with a new character; formed into new combinations, with a peculiar shape, constitution and properties; renewed.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Great sea creatures called whales in the KJV.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Each one of all; all taken separately, without exception in the stated group.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Alive or having life; as a noun, one's means of support or possessions.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A created being or thing.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Outward, onward, or away from a place.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
abundantly
Fully; amply; plentifully; in a sufficient degree.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Later than, behind, following, or in pursuit of, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A class, sort, or nature.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Having or furnished with wings; capable of winged flight.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A bird, especially one used for food or sacrifice.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
That which is right, beneficial, pleasing, useful, or morally upright.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
DEFINED WORDS
Genesis 1:22
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)
Favored by God; happy or spiritually prosperous; or praised, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Prolific; bearing children; not barren. Very productive; producing fruit in abundance.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To increase in number; to make more by natural generation or production, or by addition. To grow or increase in number.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To make full, supply to capacity, satisfy, occupy, or complete what is lacking, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
A bird, especially one used for food or sacrifice.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The ground or dry land; the world or inhabited realm; or a country and its people, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE)
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From verse 21
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Open the full verse study24O Lord, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.
25So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.
26There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.
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Open the full verse study25And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
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Open the full verse study19Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.
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Open the full verse study17Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.
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Open the full verse study7¶ And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.
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Open the full verse study3And the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up and come into thine house, and into thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneadingtroughs:
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Open the full verse study20Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.
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Open the full verse study14They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.
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Open the full verse study7And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
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Open the full verse study18And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
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Open the full verse study31And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
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Open the full verse study5Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.
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Open the full verse study12Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?
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Open the full verse study2Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.
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Open the full verse study17¶ Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
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Open the full verse study40For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
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Open the full verse study10¶ And the Lord spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
From verse 22
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Open the full verse study17Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.
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Open the full verse study15¶ Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.
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Open the full verse study28And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
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Open the full verse study38He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.
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Open the full verse study11And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;
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Open the full verse study1AND God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
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Open the full verse study12So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.
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Open the full verse study30For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it is now increased unto a multitude; and the Lord hath blessed thee since my coming: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also?
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Open the full verse study9For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.
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Open the full verse study22The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.
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Open the full verse study31Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
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Open the full verse study3Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
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Open the full verse study13That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets:
14That our oxen may be strong to labour; that there be no breaking in, nor going out; that there be no complaining in our streets.
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Open the full verse study27And Laban said unto him, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes, tarry: for I have learned by experience that the Lord hath blessed me for thy sake.
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