KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Job 39:13–15
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Job 39:13
13Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?
13 Gauest thou the goodly wings vnto the peacocks, or ‖wings and feathers vnto the Ostrich?
- Or, the feathers of the storke and Ostrich.
Job 39:14
14Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust,
14Which leaueth her egges in the earth, and warmeth them in dust,
Job 39:15
15And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them.
15And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wilde beast may breake them.
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 39:13
Fair, handsome, valuable.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Limbs by which birds or flying creatures fly; by extension, sides or extremities and figures of shelter or speed.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
The creature called an ostrich in the KJV; the KJV does not identify it with a particular modern species.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Job 39:14
Bodies produced by birds or other creatures that contain or nourish developing young.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
The ground or dry land; the world or inhabited realm; or a country and its people, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE)
Fine, dry particles of earth; the ground or earth, often as an image of frailty, abasement, or death.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Job 39:15
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)
To press or break by force; to bruise, destroy, or subdue.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To separate, fracture, open, interrupt, violate, subdue, or burst forth, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
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From verse 13
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Open the full verse study7Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord.
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Open the full verse study9Then lifted I up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came out two women, and the wind was in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heaven.
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Open the full verse study22For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
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Open the full verse study21For the king’s ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
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Open the full verse study29I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
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Open the full verse study19And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
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Open the full verse study17Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house.
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