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Isaiah 40:17
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Isaiah 40:17
17All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
17*All nations before him are as nothing, and they are counted to him lesse then nothing, and vanitie.
- Dan.4.32.
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DEFINED WORDS
Isaiah 40:17
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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)
No thing; not anything; of no value or effect.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Numbered; told; esteemed; reckoned; imputed.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Smaller in amount, degree, or importance.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Emptiness, worthlessness, transience, futile desire, or excessive self-regard.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Open the full verse study9Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
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Open the full verse study34And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation:
35And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?
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Open the full verse study7¶ And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.
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Open the full verse study11I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.
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Open the full verse study6How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?
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