KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Genesis 31:32–36
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Genesis 31:32
32With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let him not live: before our brethren discern thou what is thine with me, and take it to thee. For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them.
32With whomsoeuer thou findest thy gods, let him not liue: before our brethren discerne thou what is thine with me, and take it to thee: for Iacob knew not that Rachel had stollen them.
Genesis 31:33
33And Laban went into Jacob’s tent, and into Leah’s tent, and into the two maidservants’ tents; but he found them not. Then went he out of Leah’s tent, and entered into Rachel’s tent.
33And Laban went into Iacobs tent, and into Leahs tent, and into the two maid seruants tents: but he found them not. Then went he out of Leahs tent, and entred into Rachels tent.
Genesis 31:34
34Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel’s furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent, but found them not.
34Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camels furniture, and sate vpon them: and Laban †searched all the tent, but found them not.
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Genesis 31:35
35And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women is upon me. And he searched, but found not the images.
35And shee said to her father, Let it not displease my LORD, that I cannot rise vp before thee; for the custome of women is vpon mee: and he searched, but found not the images.
Genesis 31:36
36¶ And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?
36¶ And Iacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Iacob answered and said to Laban, what is my trespasse? what is my sinne, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?
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DEFINED WORDS
Genesis 31:32
To discover, meet with, obtain, perceive, or learn by search or experience.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Having life; having respiration and other organic functions in operation, or in a capacity to operate; not dead; Having vegetable life; to continue in constantly or habitually.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Earlier than in time; in front of; in the presence of; or prior in order or rank, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Brothers; near kindred; fellow Israelites; or fellow believers, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
To see or understand the difference; to make distinction.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To receive, seize, carry, accept, choose, or lay hold of, with the exact sense determined by context.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
Perceived, understood, recognized, or was acquainted with.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Taken or carried away without right or permission.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
DEFINED WORDS
Genesis 31:33
The number equal to one and one.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
maidservants
Female servants or attendants.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
But; marking a contrast or qualification in the sentence.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Discovered, obtained, or encountered; or established upon a foundation, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Outside, away from within, forth, absent, or no longer in a stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Went or came in; was admitted, introduced, or penetrated.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
DEFINED WORDS
Genesis 31:34
Received, seized, carried, accepted, captured, chosen, or laid hold of, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Likenesses, representations, or visible forms; often idols when made or used as objects of worship.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To place, set, lay, appoint, bring into a condition, or cause to be, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
A large desert animal used for riding and bearing burdens; also named among the unclean animals in the KJV.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Equipment, vessels, or other things provided for use.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Rested or was placed in a seated position.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Looked through or examined carefully in order to find or know something.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
But; marking a contrast or qualification in the sentence.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Discovered, obtained, or encountered; or established upon a foundation, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
DEFINED WORDS
Genesis 31:35
Spoke, declared, reported, commanded, or expressed in words.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
To offend; to make angry, sometimes in a slight degree.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
LORD: The name of God the Father in English, from the Hebrew Tetragrammaton YHWH, also rendered GOD and JEHOVAH. Lord: A title applied to God and Christ as ruler and master, the one to whom worship and obedience are due. lord: A male master, owner, ruler, or superior addressed or described as one having authority.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
Is unable to; is not able to.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To get up, ascend, appear, increase, begin, or come forth from rest or death.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Earlier than in time; in front of; in the presence of; or prior in order or rank, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Looked through or examined carefully in order to find or know something.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
But; marking a contrast or qualification in the sentence.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Discovered, obtained, or encountered; or established upon a foundation, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Likenesses, representations, or visible forms; often idols when made or used as objects of worship.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
DEFINED WORDS
Genesis 31:36
Contended, disputed, or wrangled.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
Replied or responded; spoke in answer to a person, statement, or situation.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Spoke, declared, reported, commanded, or expressed in words.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A transgression, offense, or wrongful crossing of a boundary; as a verb, to offend or sin.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Transgression of the law of God; an offence against God; or the sinful principle or condition, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Have: possess, hold, receive, or experience; also used as an auxiliary verb.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
With heat. Ardently; vehemently; violently.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828
Followed after, chased, continued, or sought to attain.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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)
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From verse 32
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Open the full verse study3Behold, here I am: witness against me before the Lord, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you.
4And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken ought of any man’s hand.
5And he said unto them, The Lord is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that ye have not found ought in my hand. And they answered, He is witness.
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Open the full verse study19And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father’s.
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Open the full verse study23And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days’ journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead.
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Open the full verse study30And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father’s house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?
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Open the full verse study9With whomsoever of thy servants it be found, both let him die, and we also will be my lord’s bondmen.
10And he said, Now also let it be according unto your words: he with whom it is found shall be my servant; and ye shall be blameless.
11Then they speedily took down every man his sack to the ground, and opened every man his sack.
12And he searched, and began at the eldest, and left at the youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.
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Open the full verse study24¶ And the men of Israel were distressed that day: for Saul had adjured the people, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food until evening, that I may be avenged on mine enemies. So none of the people tasted any food.
25And all they of the land came to a wood; and there was honey upon the ground.
26And when the people were come into the wood, behold, the honey dropped; but no man put his hand to his mouth: for the people feared the oath.
27But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped it in an honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened.
28Then answered one of the people, and said, Thy father straitly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food this day. And the people were faint.
29Then said Jonathan, My father hath troubled the land: see, I pray you, how mine eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.
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Open the full verse study17Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you?
18I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? walked we not in the same steps?
19Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.
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Open the full verse study20Avoiding this, that no man should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us:
21Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.
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Open the full verse study7And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.
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Open the full verse study33So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.
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Open the full verse study8And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren.
From verse 33
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Open the full verse study28And the damsel ran, and told them of her mother’s house these things.
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Open the full verse study67And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
From verse 34
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Open the full verse study19And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father’s.
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Open the full verse study17¶ Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels;
From verse 35
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Open the full verse study32¶ Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the Lord.
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Open the full verse study12¶ Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
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Open the full verse study19¶ Bath-sheba therefore went unto king Solomon, to speak unto him for Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself unto her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a seat to be set for the king’s mother; and she sat on his right hand.
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Open the full verse study18Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
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Open the full verse study6Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.
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Open the full verse study1CHILDREN, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
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Open the full verse study11Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.
12Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?
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Open the full verse study19¶ And if a woman have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be put apart seven days: and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even.
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Open the full verse study3¶ Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
From verse 36
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Open the full verse study26Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
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Open the full verse study19And the man of God was wroth with him, and said, Thou shouldest have smitten five or six times; then hadst thou smitten Syria till thou hadst consumed it: whereas now thou shalt smite Syria but thrice.
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Open the full verse study11But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the Lord his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.
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Open the full verse study2And Jacob’s anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in God’s stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?
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Open the full verse study7And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob’s daughter; which thing ought not to be done.
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Open the full verse study7Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
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Open the full verse study19Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
20For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
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Open the full verse study5And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it out: and his hand was restored whole as the other.
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Open the full verse study15And Moses was very wroth, and said unto the Lord, Respect not thou their offering: I have not taken one ass from them, neither have I hurt one of them.
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Open the full verse study1THE wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.
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