KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Job 40:22–23
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Job 40:22
22The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.
22The shady trees couer him with their shaddow: the willowes of the brooke compasse him about.
Job 40:23
23Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.
23Behold, †he drinketh vp a riuer, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw vp Iordan into his mouth.
- Heb. he oppresseth.
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 40:22
Abounding with shade or shades; overspread with shade.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Shade from light; a dark outline; or a figure of protection, transience, or a coming reality, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
The tree called a willow in the KJV, associated with water; the entry does not impose a particular modern species.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To go all round or all over; Circumference, circuit.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
Around, concerning, near, or engaged in; on every side or approximately, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
DEFINED WORDS
Job 40:23
To look upon or see; as an interjection, look or take notice.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To haste: to hurry, act quickly, or make speed.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Something committed to a person’s care for use or management, and for which an account must be rendered. Confidence; a reliance or resting of the mind on the integrity, veracity, justice, friendship or other sound principle of another person.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To pull, drag, bring, lead, take out, attract, or make a line, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The opening used for eating and speaking; also an opening, edge, command, or testimony by extension.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 22
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Open the full verse study5He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful field; he placed it by great waters, and set it as a willow tree.
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Open the full verse study7Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows.
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Open the full verse study40And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the Lord your God seven days.
From verse 23
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Open the full verse study10And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
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Open the full verse study16¶ Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
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Open the full verse study25I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.
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Open the full verse study15And as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water, (for Jordan overfloweth all his banks all the time of harvest,)
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Open the full verse study8I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.
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