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Isaiah 59:5
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Isaiah 59:5
5They hatch cockatrice’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
5‖‖They hatch cockatrice egges, and weaue the spiders web: he that eateth of their egges dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
- Or, adders.
- Or, that which is sprinkled is as if there brake out a viper.
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DEFINED WORDS
Isaiah 59:5
To produce young from eggs; to bring forth by incubation.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
cockatrice
A venomous serpent or basilisk-like creature named in prophetic imagery.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604 · Skeat 1893
Bodies produced by birds or other creatures that contain or nourish developing young.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To interlace threads or strands to form a network or web.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The creature called a spider in the KJV; the entry does not impose a disputed modern species identification.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A network of fine threads spun by a spider.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Eats; takes food into the mouth and consumes it.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To press or break by force; to bruise, destroy, or subdue.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Breaks, separates, opens, or bursts forth.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · 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)
A venomous serpent.
Meaning drawn from: Bullokar 1616
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Open the full verse study7¶ But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
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Open the full verse study29¶ Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent’s root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.
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Open the full verse study14Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider’s web.
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Open the full verse study34O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
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Open the full verse study32At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
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