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Job 2:8
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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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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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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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