KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Job 2:7–8
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Job 2:7
7¶ So went Satan forth from the presence of the Lord, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.
7¶ So went Satan foorth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Iob with sore biles, from the sole of his foote vnto his crowne.
Job 2:8
8And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.
8And hee tooke him a potsheard to scrape himselfe withall; and hee sate downe among the ashes.
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 2:7
The adversary; the devil who opposes God and accuses or tempts.
Meaning drawn from: Bullokar 1616 · Webster 1828
Outward, onward, or away from a place.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
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
Struck, beat, wounded, afflicted, or slew.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Painful, grievous, severe, or very great; also a wound or tender place.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
As a noun, an inflamed sore or swelling; as a verb, to bubble or be violently agitated by heat, or to cook in boiling liquid.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
The underside of the foot.
Meaning drawn from: Bullokar 1616 · Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The lower extremity used for standing or walking; also a measure, base, or lowest part; as a verb, to tread or walk.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
A royal head ornament; by extension, kingship, honour, reward, or the top of the head.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
DEFINED WORDS
Job 2:8
A piece or fragment of a broken pot.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To clean by scraping.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Rested or was placed in a seated position.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
From a higher place or position to a lower one; below.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The powdery residue left after burning; also a sign of mourning, humiliation, or ruin.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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From verse 7
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Open the full verse study35The Lord shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head.
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Open the full verse study6From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
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Open the full verse study30My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
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Open the full verse study27The Lord will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.
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Open the full verse study5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
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Open the full verse study22And the Lord said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so.
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Open the full verse study9And it shall become small dust in all the land of Egypt, and shall be a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast, throughout all the land of Egypt.
10And they took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it became a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast.
11And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils; for the boil was upon the magicians, and upon all the Egyptians.
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Open the full verse study17Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will discover their secret parts.
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Open the full verse study17My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
18By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
19He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
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Open the full verse study11And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.
From verse 8
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Open the full verse study6Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
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Open the full verse study30And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:
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Open the full verse study6For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
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Open the full verse study21Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
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Open the full verse study20And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores,
21And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
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Open the full verse study5My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
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Open the full verse study19¶ And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of divers colours that was on her, and laid her hand on her head, and went on crying.
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Open the full verse study26¶ O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.
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Open the full verse study14My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
15They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
16I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.
17My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children’s sake of mine own body.
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Open the full verse study7For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
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Open the full verse study3To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.
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