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Isaiah 3:16–25

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¶ Moreover the Lord saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:
Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will discover their secret parts.
In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon,
The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,
The rings, and nose jewels,
The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins,
The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.
And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.
Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.
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From verse 16

  1. Isaiah 32:9–11Rank 1 from verse 16
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    9¶ Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.

    10Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.

    11Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.

  2. Ezekiel 16:49–50Rank 2 from verse 16
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    49Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

    50And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.

  3. Proverbs 30:13Rank 3 from verse 16
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    13There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.

  4. Isaiah 4:4Rank 4 from verse 16
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    4When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.

  5. Luke 23:28Rank 5 from verse 16
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    28But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children.

From verse 17

  1. Jeremiah 13:22Rank 1 from verse 17
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    22¶ And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered, and thy heels made bare.

  2. Isaiah 20:4Rank 2 from verse 17
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    4So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

  3. Leviticus 13:29–30Rank 3 from verse 17
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    29¶ If a man or woman have a plague upon the head or the beard;

    30Then the priest shall see the plague: and, behold, if it be in sight deeper than the skin; and there be in it a yellow thin hair; then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a dry scall, even a leprosy upon the head or beard.

  4. Leviticus 13:43–44Rank 4 from verse 17
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    43Then the priest shall look upon it: and, behold, if the rising of the sore be white reddish in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, as the leprosy appeareth in the skin of the flesh;

    44He is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague is in his head.

  5. Micah 1:11Rank 5 from verse 17
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    11Pass ye away, thou inhabitant of Saphir, having thy shame naked: the inhabitant of Zaanan came not forth in the mourning of Beth-ezel; he shall receive of you his standing.

From verse 18

  1. Judges 8:21Rank 1 from verse 18
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    21Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Rise thou, and fall upon us: for as the man is, so is his strength. And Gideon arose, and slew Zebah and Zalmunna, and took away the ornaments that were on their camels’ necks.

  2. Judges 8:26Rank 2 from verse 18
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    26And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold; beside ornaments, and collars, and purple raiment that was on the kings of Midian, and beside the chains that were about their camels’ necks.

From verse 19

  1. Ezekiel 16:11Rank 1 from verse 19
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    11I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck.

  2. Exodus 35:22Rank 2 from verse 19
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    22And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing hearted, and brought bracelets, and earrings, and rings, and tablets, all jewels of gold: and every man that offered offered an offering of gold unto the Lord.

  3. Genesis 24:22Rank 3 from verse 19
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    22And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold;

  4. Genesis 24:30Rank 4 from verse 19
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    30And it came to pass, when he saw the earring and bracelets upon his sister’s hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spake the man unto me; that he came unto the man; and, behold, he stood by the camels at the well.

  5. Genesis 24:53Rank 5 from verse 19
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    53And the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment, and gave them to Rebekah: he gave also to her brother and to her mother precious things.

From verse 20

  1. Exodus 39:28Rank 1 from verse 20
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    28And a mitre of fine linen, and goodly bonnets of fine linen, and linen breeches of fine twined linen,

  2. Exodus 32:2Rank 2 from verse 20
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    2And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me.

  3. Ezekiel 16:12Rank 3 from verse 20
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    12And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head.

  4. Genesis 35:4Rank 4 from verse 20
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    4And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.

  5. Hosea 2:13Rank 5 from verse 20
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    13And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the Lord.

From verse 21

  1. Genesis 24:47Rank 1 from verse 21
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    47And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter art thou? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor’s son, whom Milcah bare unto him: and I put the earring upon her face, and the bracelets upon her hands.

  2. 1 Peter 3:3–4Rank 2 from verse 21
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    3Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;

    4But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.

  3. 1 Timothy 2:9–10Rank 3 from verse 21
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    9In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;

    10But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.

  4. Esther 8:12Rank 4 from verse 21
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    12Upon one day in all the provinces of king Ahasuerus, namely, upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.

  5. Ezekiel 16:12Rank 5 from verse 21
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    12And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head.

From verse 23

  1. 1 Chronicles 15:27Rank 1 from verse 23
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    27And David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites that bare the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the master of the song with the singers: David also had upon him an ephod of linen.

  2. Exodus 38:8Rank 2 from verse 23
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    8¶ And he made the laver of brass, and the foot of it of brass, of the lookingglasses of the women assembling, which assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

  3. Ezekiel 16:10Rank 3 from verse 23
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    10I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers’ skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk.

  4. Genesis 24:65Rank 4 from verse 23
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    65For she had said unto the servant, What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant had said, It is my master: therefore she took a vail, and covered herself.

  5. Genesis 41:42Rank 5 from verse 23
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    42And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;

From verse 24

  1. Ezekiel 27:31Rank 1 from verse 24
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    31And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing.

  2. Lamentations 2:10Rank 2 from verse 24
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    10The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

  3. 1 Peter 3:3Rank 3 from verse 24
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    3Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;

  4. Isaiah 15:3Rank 4 from verse 24
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    3In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly.

  5. Isaiah 22:12Rank 5 from verse 24
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    12And in that day did the Lord God of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:

From verse 25

  1. 2 Chronicles 29:9Rank 1 from verse 25
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    9For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.

  2. Amos 9:10Rank 2 from verse 25
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    10All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.

  3. Isaiah 1:20Rank 3 from verse 25
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    20But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

  4. Jeremiah 11:22Rank 4 from verse 25
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    22Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine:

  5. Jeremiah 14:18Rank 5 from verse 25
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    18If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that they know not.

WORDS IN THIS PASSAGE

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DEFINED WORDS

Isaiah 3:16

COMBINED MEANING

moreover

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Besides, further, additionally, or what is more, introducing another statement, fact, command, reason, or continuation.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

forth

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1. Outward, away, or forward from a place, person, possession, or former position. 2. In constructions of bearing or producing, into birth, growth, fruit, or another stated result. 3. With verbs such as put, stretch, spread, or reach, outward by extension or exertion. 4. In constructions of showing, speaking, issuing, or displaying, into view, expression, publication, or effect. 5. Onward from a stated time or point, as in from that time forth.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

wanton

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Unrestrained, self-indulgent, luxurious, lustful, shameless, or insolently given to sensual appetite and pleasure without proper restraint.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

eyes

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The bodily organs of sight; by extension, sight, attention, observation, perception, understanding, desire, judgment, estimation, favour, or the presence and view before which something occurs.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

walking

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Sense 1: Moving on foot. Sense 2: Figuratively, conducting one's life or behaviour.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

DEFINED WORDS

Isaiah 3:17

COMBINED MEANING

Lord

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1. A title of God or Jesus Christ acknowledging authority and rule. 2. A respectful title or address for one in authority.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

smite

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To strike, hit, beat, wound, kill, defeat, destroy, afflict, plague, or bring a forceful blow, judgment, correction, or rebuke upon someone or something.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

crown

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Sense 1: A royal head ornament; by extension, kingship, honour, reward, or the top of the head. Sense 2: To invest, adorn, or honour with a crown, dignity, or reward.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

head

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The upper part of the body; a chief, source, summit, or leading position.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

secret

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1. Hidden, concealed, private, or not openly known. 2. A hidden matter, counsel, or mystery.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

parts

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Sense 1: Portions or divisions of a whole. Sense 2: Divides, separates, departs, or assigns shares.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Isaiah 3:18

COMBINED MEANING

in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

day

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Sense 1: Light or the period of light between morning and evening, as distinguished from night. Sense 2: A complete daily cycle. Sense 3: A specified time, occasion, period, age, or season.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

Lord

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1. A title of God or Jesus Christ acknowledging authority and rule. 2. A respectful title or address for one in authority.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

take

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To receive, seize, carry, accept, choose, or lay hold of.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893

COMBINED MEANING

ornaments

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1. Objects worn or displayed for adornment or decoration. 2. By extension, features regarded as adornment or beauty.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

about

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1. Around or near in place, position, or movement; on every side, in a circuit, from place to place, or turned from one direction or state toward another. 2. Approximately in number, measure, distance, or time. 3. Concerning, occupied with, or engaged in a matter. 4. On the point of, intending, or attempting an action.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

like

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Sense 1: Similar or of the same kind; in the same manner; likely. Sense 2: A like person or thing; an equal or counterpart. Sense 3: To please, choose, or regard with favour.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828

DEFINED WORDS

Isaiah 3:19

COMBINED MEANING

chains

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Sense 1: Series of connected links used as ornaments, restraints, or bonds. Sense 2: Figuratively, confinement, affliction, or surrounding force.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Isaiah 3:20

COMBINED MEANING

ornaments

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1. Objects worn or displayed for adornment or decoration. 2. By extension, features regarded as adornment or beauty.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Isaiah 3:21

COMBINED MEANING

rings

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Sense 1: Circular bands or ornaments. Sense 2: Circular spaces or companies.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

nose

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The projecting part of the face containing the nostrils and serving chiefly for smell and breathing.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

jewels

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Precious ornaments or valuable objects, often of gold or set with precious stones.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Isaiah 3:22

COMBINED MEANING

changeable

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Able to be changed; in 'changeable suits of apparel,' garments provided in changes.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893

COMBINED MEANING

apparel

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Sense 1: Clothing or garments. Sense 2: As a verb, to clothe or adorn with garments.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

pins

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Pegs, pins, or fastening pieces used to secure or support something.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Isaiah 3:23

COMBINED MEANING

fine

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1. Of cloth or workmanship, delicate or finely made. 2. Of flour or meal, finely ground or prepared. 3. Of gold or other metal, pure, refined, or of high quality. 4. As a verb, to refine or purify metal.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893

DEFINED WORDS

Isaiah 3:24

COMBINED MEANING

shall

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An auxiliary verb expressing future action, intention, promise, command, requirement, or determination.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

pass

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To go by, through, over, or beyond; to happen, cease, or be transferred.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

sweet

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Sense 1: Pleasing to the taste or smell. Sense 2: Pleasant, agreeable, or delightful to the senses or mind.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

smell

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Sense 1: Scent or odor. Sense 2: As a verb, to perceive by the nose or to give off an odor.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

stink

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Sense 1: A strong offensive smell. Sense 2: To give off an offensive smell or become offensive or odious.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

girdle

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A belt, sash, or band worn around the waist or body to bind or secure clothing or other items.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

rent

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Sense 1: Tore, ripped, split, broke apart, divided, or removed forcibly. Sense 2: A tear, split, or breach produced by such action.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

set

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1. To put or place a person or thing in a position, relation, or condition; when passive, to be so placed, fixed, or adorned. 2. To establish, fix, appoint, assign, prescribe, or determine. 3. To arrange, prepare, present, display, or put in order or array. 4. To direct, turn, or firmly apply the face, heart, eyes, mind, affection, or action toward something. 5. To start, advance, send out, proceed on a course or work, or make an attack, as in set forward, set forth, or set upon where those meanings apply. 6. To value or esteem; or, in set at nought or set light by, to despise. 7. Of the sun, to go down.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

hair

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A filament growing from the skin, or the collective covering formed by such filaments; sometimes something extremely fine or small.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

baldness

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Want, loss, or removal of hair from the head, whether natural or made by shaving.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

stomacher

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A fitted, ornamental, or supportive article of clothing worn over the breast or front of the body.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

girding

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Present-participial or verbal-noun form of gird, meaning to fasten clothing or another object around the body.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

burning

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Sense 1: Present-participial or verbal-noun form of burn, meaning to consume, injure, heat, dry, or harden by fire or intense heat. Sense 2: To be on fire.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

beauty

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The quality or appearance of being fair, comely, pleasing, excellent, or glorious.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Isaiah 3:25

COMBINED MEANING

shall

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An auxiliary verb expressing future action, intention, promise, command, requirement, or determination.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

fall

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Sense 1: To descend, drop, or lose an upright position. Sense 2: To be slain, defeated, overthrown, ruined, or brought down. Sense 3: To come upon or attack. Sense 4: To pass into a specified place, condition, power, or course, or to depart from a former standing. Sense 5: To happen, turn out, or be allotted. Sense 6: As a noun, descent, overthrow, ruin, or loss of standing.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

mighty

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Possessing or displaying great strength, power, ability, rank, or effect.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

war

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Sense 1: Armed conflict. Sense 2: As a verb, to fight or contend.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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15What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord God of hosts.

16¶ Moreover the Lord saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:

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17Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will discover their secret parts.

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18In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon,

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19The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,

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20The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,

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21The rings, and nose jewels,

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22The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins,

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23The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.

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24And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.

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25Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.

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26And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.

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