KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Hebrews 12:12–13
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Hebrews 12:12
12Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
12Wherefore lift vp the handes which hang downe, and the feeble knees.
Hebrews 12:13
13And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.
13And make ‖straight paths for your feete, lest that which is lame bee turned out of the way, but let it rather bee healed.
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DEFINED WORDS
Hebrews 12:12
Why; for what reason.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To raise, bear up, exalt, or take away; also an act of raising.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The end parts of the arms used for holding and working; also figures of power, possession, agency, or aid.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To put to death by suspending by the neck. To cover or furnish by any thing suspended or fastened to the walls.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
From a higher place or position to a lower one; below.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Weak, lacking strength.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604
The joint between the thigh and lower leg, especially as bent or bowed.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
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Hebrews 12:13
To form, produce, cause, or carry out what the verse states.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Made direct, clear, and rightly ordered; in context, a prepared way or course without crooked deviation.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Ways, tracks, or courses followed in travel or conduct.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
That not; for fear that.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Moved in a circle; changed.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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)
But; marking a contrast or qualification in the sentence.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Restored to a sound state.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
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From verse 12
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Open the full verse study3¶ Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
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Open the full verse study3For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
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Open the full verse study14Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.
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Open the full verse study3Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.
4Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.
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Open the full verse study7And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it cometh: and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it cometh, and shall be brought to pass, saith the Lord God.
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Open the full verse study17All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.
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Open the full verse study5And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
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Open the full verse study6Then the king’s countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.
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Open the full verse study10She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.
From verse 13
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Open the full verse study26Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.
27Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.
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Open the full verse study1BRETHREN, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
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Open the full verse study3¶ Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
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Open the full verse study6Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.
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Open the full verse study3¶ The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
4Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:
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Open the full verse study16Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
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Open the full verse study22And of some have compassion, making a difference:
23And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
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Open the full verse study8Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together: a great company shall return thither.
9They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
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Open the full verse study5Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth;
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Open the full verse study8And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.
9No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there:
10And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
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Open the full verse study16And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.
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Open the full verse study15Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up;
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Open the full verse study12And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
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