KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Job 40:14–17
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Job 40:14
14Then will I also confess unto thee that thine own right hand can save thee.
14Then will I also confesse vnto thee, that thine owne right hand can saue thee.
Job 40:15
15¶ Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.
15¶ Beholde now ‖Behemoth which I made with thee, hee eateth grasse as an oxe.
- Or, the Elephant, as some think.
Job 40:16
16Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.
16Loe now, his strength is in his loynes, and his force is in the nauell of his belly.
Job 40:17
17He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.
17‖Hee moueth his taile like a Cedar: the sinewes of his stones are wrapt together.
- Or, he setteth vp.
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 40:14
To make confession; to disclose faults, or the state of the conscience.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Belonging to oneself; peculiar or proper to the person or thing named.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Straight, correct, just, proper, or belonging to a lawful claim; also the opposite of left.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The part of the body at the end of the arm; figuratively, power, possession, aid, or agency.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To rescue, preserve, deliver, or keep from loss or danger.
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Job 40:15
To look upon or see; as an interjection, look or take notice.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The creature called behemoth in Job 40 and described in the surrounding passage; the KJV does not identify it with a particular modern species.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Formed, caused, prepared, appointed, or brought into a stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Eats; takes food into the mouth and consumes it.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Low green herbage growing from the ground; by extension, plants used for pasture.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
DEFINED WORDS
Job 40:16
Power, force, firmness, ability, endurance, or that which gives support.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Strength, power, compulsion, effect, or an armed body, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The center of the lower part of the abdomen, or the point where the umbilical cord passes out of the fetus.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Job 40:17
The part of an animal which terminates its body behind.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Similar or of the same kind; in the same manner; likely; or, as a verb, to please.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828
A large, fragrant evergreen tree valued for durable timber.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Tendons or strong cords of the body; figuratively, images of strength or stiffness.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Pieces or masses of rock; or, as a verb, strikes with stones, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Entwined or wound closely around or together.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
In one place, company, time, purpose, or united condition.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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From verse 14
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Open the full verse study4But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
5Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
6And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
7That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
8For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
9Not of works, lest any man should boast.
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Open the full verse study29He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.
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Open the full verse study3For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.
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Open the full verse study6For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
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Open the full verse study6For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
From verse 15
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Open the full verse study24¶ And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
25And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
26¶ And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
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Open the full verse study20Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.
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Open the full verse study14He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;
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Open the full verse study8The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.
From verse 17
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Open the full verse study23The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.
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