KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Isaiah 28:25–27
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Isaiah 28:25
25When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?
25‖‖†When hee hath made plaine the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principall wheate, and the appointed barly and the rye in their place?
- Or, the wheat in the principall place and barley in the appointed place.
- Or, spelt.
- Heb. border.
Isaiah 28:26
26For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.
26‖For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.
- Or, and he bindeth it in such sort as God doth teach him.
Isaiah 28:27
27For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.
27For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheele turned about vpon the cummin: but the fitches are beaten out with a staffe, and the cummin with a rodde.
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DEFINED WORDS
Isaiah 28:25
Formed, caused, prepared, appointed, or brought into a stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Level or open land with little rise or depression; also clear, evident, simple, or unadorned, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To throw, send forth, place, reckon, or discard, with the exact sense determined by context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Out of one's house; away from home; from a distance.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
Vetches; a kind of seed-bearing plant.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
To disperse, spread apart, or separate in different directions or places.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
First, chief, or highest in rank or importance; also a chief person or leading thing.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A grain-bearing plant and its seed, commonly ground into flour for bread.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Fixed; set; established; decreed; ordained; constituted; allotted; Furnished; equipped with things necessary.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
A location, position, room, occasion, office, or passage, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
DEFINED WORDS
Isaiah 28:26
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)
To teach, inform, counsel, or direct so as to give understanding.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
discretion
Wise choice of one from another.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604
To instruct, inform, train, show, counsel, or communicate knowledge or doctrine.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
DEFINED WORDS
Isaiah 28:27
Vetches; a kind of seed-bearing plant.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
To separate grain from husks and straw by beating, treading, or a similar process.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To separate grain from husks and straw by beating, treading, or a similar process.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
instrument
A tool or implement used to strike, thresh, destroy, or perform work.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A cart image referring to its rope, wheel, or heavy load.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A cart or threshing wheel used in bruising or separating grain.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Moved in a circle; changed.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Around, concerning, near, or engaged in; on every side or approximately, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Except; excluding all others or alternatives.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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)
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From verse 25
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Open the full verse study9¶ Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.
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Open the full verse study23Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
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Open the full verse study31And the flax and the barley was smitten: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled.
32But the wheat and the rie were not smitten: for they were not grown up.
From verse 26
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Open the full verse study3And I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship,
4To devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,
5And in cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of timber, to work in all manner of workmanship.
6And I, behold, I have given with him Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan: and in the hearts of all that are wise hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded thee;
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Open the full verse study2And Moses called Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in whose heart the Lord had put wisdom, even every one whose heart stirred him up to come unto the work to do it:
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Open the full verse study17¶ As for these four children, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom: and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.
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Open the full verse study3And thou shalt speak unto all that are wise hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they may make Aaron’s garments to consecrate him, that he may minister unto me in the priest’s office.
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Open the full verse study17Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
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Open the full verse study11Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
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Open the full verse study17Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding.
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Open the full verse study1BLESSED be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:
From verse 27
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Open the full verse study15Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.
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Open the full verse study7Neither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like the dust by threshing.
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Open the full verse study3Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron:
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Open the full verse study7¶ Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?
8In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.
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Open the full verse study24O Lord, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.
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Open the full verse study28Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the Lord: for I am with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.
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