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Job 28:2

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Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.
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  1. Deuteronomy 8:9Rank 1 from verse 2
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    9A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.

  2. Genesis 4:22Rank 2 from verse 2
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    22And Zillah, she also bare Tubal-cain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.

  3. Numbers 31:22Rank 3 from verse 2
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    22Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

  4. 1 Chronicles 22:14Rank 4 from verse 2
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    14Now, behold, in my trouble I have prepared for the house of the Lord an hundred thousand talents of gold, and a thousand thousand talents of silver; and of brass and iron without weight; for it is in abundance: timber also and stone have I prepared; and thou mayest add thereto.

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Job 28:2

COMBINED MEANING

taken

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1. Received, accepted, or chosen. 2. Seized or captured. 3. Carried or laid hold of.

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out

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Outside, away from within, forth, absent, or no longer in a stated condition.

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earth

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Sense 1: The world in distinction from heaven. Sense 2: Dry land, ground, soil, or dust. Sense 3: A land, region, or its inhabitants.

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molten

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Sense 1: Melted or made liquid by heat. Sense 2: Cast or formed from melted material.

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stone

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Sense 1: A piece or mass of rock. Sense 2: To strike or kill with stones.

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1SURELY there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it.

2Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.

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3He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.

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