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Jeremiah 10:4
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Jeremiah 10:4
4They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
4They decke it with siluer and with golde, they fasten it with nayles, and with hammers that it mooue not.
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DEFINED WORDS
Jeremiah 10:4
To cover, clothe, adorn, or furnish.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To make firm, fixed, secure, closed, or attached; to seize and hold.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Tools with a heavy striking head; also things compared to them for force or breaking power.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To change place; to stir, shake, prompt, influence, or set in action.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Open the full verse study7They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea, one shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.
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Open the full verse study19The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
20He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved.
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Open the full verse study6They helped every one his neighbour; and every one said to his brother, Be of good courage.
7So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It is ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved.
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Open the full verse study12The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint.
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Open the full verse study4Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
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Open the full verse study15The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
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