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Jeremiah 8:17
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Jeremiah 8:17
17For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the Lord.
17*For behold, I wil send serpents, cockatrices among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you; saith the LORD.
- Psal. 58.5,6.
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DEFINED WORDS
Jeremiah 8:17
To look upon or see; as an interjection, look or take notice.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
cockatrices
Venomous serpents or basilisk-like creatures named in prophetic imagery.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Skeat 1893
Subdued by charms; delighted; enchanted.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To seize, pierce, or wound with the teeth; figuratively, to injure, vex, or consume another.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
LORD: The name of God the Father in English, from the Hebrew Tetragrammaton YHWH, also rendered GOD and JEHOVAH. Lord: A title applied to God and Christ as ruler and master, the one to whom worship and obedience are due. lord: A male master, owner, ruler, or superior addressed or described as one having authority.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
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Open the full verse study11Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.
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Open the full verse study24They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.
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Open the full verse study4Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
5Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
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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 study6And the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
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Open the full verse study19As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
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Open the full verse study3And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:
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Open the full verse study19For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.
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