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Job 31:22

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Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.
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  1. Job 31:10Rank 1 from verse 22
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    10Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.

  2. Job 31:40Rank 2 from verse 22
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    40Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

  3. Job 38:15Rank 3 from verse 22
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    15And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken.

  4. Joshua 22:22–23Rank 4 from verse 22
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    22The Lord God of gods, the Lord God of gods, he knoweth, and Israel he shall know; if it be in rebellion, or if in transgression against the Lord, (save us not this day,)

    23That we have built us an altar to turn from following the Lord, or if to offer thereon burnt offering or meat offering, or if to offer peace offerings thereon, let the Lord himself require it;

  5. Psalms 137:6Rank 5 from verse 22
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    6If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.

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Job 31:22

COMBINED MEANING

let

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Sense 1: To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain. Sense 2: To lower or send down.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

fall

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Sense 1: To descend, drop, or lose an upright position. Sense 2: To be slain, defeated, overthrown, ruined, or brought down. Sense 3: To come upon or attack. Sense 4: To pass into a specified place, condition, power, or course, or to depart from a former standing. Sense 5: To happen, turn out, or be allotted. Sense 6: As a noun, descent, overthrow, ruin, or loss of standing.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

shoulder

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Sense 1: The upper joint of the arm. Sense 2: Figuratively, a place of bearing, support, or responsibility.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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blade

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Sense 1: The cutting part of a tool or weapon. Sense 2: The leaf or stalk of a plant.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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21If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:

22Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.

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23For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.

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