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Genesis 50:2
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Genesis 50:2
2And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
2And Ioseph commanded his seruants the physicians to imbalme his father: and the physicians imbalmed Israel.
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DEFINED WORDS
Genesis 50:2
Ordered; directed.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Persons who serve, labour for, obey, or attend another.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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physicians
Persons skilled in healing and the treatment of disease.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To preserve a dead body, especially with spices or aromatic substances.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Treated with spices or aromatic substances to preserve a dead body.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
The name given to Jacob and, by extension, his descendants, their nation, or the people so called in Scripture.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Open the full verse study14And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices prepared by the apothecaries’ art: and they made a very great burning for him.
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Open the full verse study26So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
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Open the full verse study39And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight.
40Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.
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Open the full verse study1AND when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.
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Open the full verse study12For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.
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Open the full verse study7Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this.
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Open the full verse study1NOW upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them.
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Open the full verse study8She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.
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