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Job 16:15

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I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
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  1. Genesis 37:34Rank 1 from verse 15
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    34And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.

  2. Psalms 7:5Rank 2 from verse 15
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    5Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.

  3. 1 Kings 21:27Rank 3 from verse 15
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    27And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.

  4. Isaiah 22:12Rank 4 from verse 15
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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:

  5. Psalms 75:5Rank 5 from verse 15
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    5Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.

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Job 16:15

COMBINED MEANING

sewed

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of sew, meaning to join or fasten by stitches.

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COMBINED MEANING

upon

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1. Marks the person, place, thing, or basis to which something is related: on or onto; above or over; toward or against as the target of action, speech, thought, attention, or force; resting on, assigned to, or affecting as a state, gift, burden, duty, guilt, or judgment; supported by or based on; or one placed, added, or repeated on or after another. 2. With a stated time or occasion, or a preceding event, at that time or point, or at or after that event: on, at, when, then, or following it.

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skin

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Sense 1: The natural outer covering of a person or animal; the hide or exterior covering. Sense 2: To strip off the skin or hide.

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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

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14He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.

15I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.

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16My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

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