KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Job 41:23–27
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Job 41:23
23The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.
23†The flakes of his flesh are ioyned together: they are firme in themselues, they cannot be moued.
- Heb. the fallings.
Job 41:24
24His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.
24His heart is as firme as a stone, yea as hard as a peece of the nether mil-stone.
Job 41:25
25When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves.
25When he rayseth vp himselfe, the mightie are afraid: by reason of breakings they purifie themselues.
Job 41:26
26The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon.
26The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the speare, the dart, nor the ‖habergeon.
- Or, brestplate.
Job 41:27
27He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.
27He esteemeth iron as straw, and brasse as rotten wood.
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 41:23
The soft substance of the body; also the body, human nature, kindred, or mankind.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Added; united; set or fastened together; associated; confederated.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
In one place, company, time, purpose, or united condition.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Properly, fixed; hence, applied to the matter of bodies, it signifies closely compressed; compact; hard; solid.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Is unable to; is not able to.
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Shaken from a settled or secure position.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Job 41:24
The bodily organ; more often in Scripture, the inward person—the mind, will, affections, conscience, or moral character—according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Properly, fixed; hence, applied to the matter of bodies, it signifies closely compressed; compact; hard; solid.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A piece or mass of rock; also to strike or kill with stones, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Yes; truly; an expression of affirmation or emphasis.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Firm, difficult, severe, harsh, laborious, forceful, or resistant to pressure.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Lower or lying beneath.
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One of the heavy stones used for grinding grain in a mill.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Job 41:25
Possessing or displaying great strength, power, ability, rank, or effect.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Fearful or apprehensive.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
A ground or cause; understanding or judgment; to think, discuss, or argue.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
Acts or instances of breaking; breaches, eruptions, or violent openings, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To make, prepare, or treat as clean in the manner supplied by the verse.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
DEFINED WORDS
Job 41:26
Places, sets, puts, applies, or imposes. In KJV phrases, it may mean stores up, reveals, brings low, grasps, regards, establishes, sets an ambush, or attacks.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 (facsimile-linked witness) · Strong's Exhaustive Concordance 1890 (occurrence-specific) · KJV usage (PCE)
Is unable to; is not able to.
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To grasp, keep, possess, restrain, maintain, regard, or account, according to context.
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A long weapon with a pointed head.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A pointed missile weapon thrown by the hand; anything that pierces or wounds like such a missile.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A coat or defensive covering of mail.
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Job 41:27
A comparison for what is weak, insubstantial, or easily trampled.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Putrid; carious; decomposed by the natural process of decay.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 24
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Open the full verse study4Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;
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Open the full verse study3O Lord, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
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Open the full verse study12Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the Lord of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the Lord of hosts.
From verse 25
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Open the full verse study4¶ But the Lord sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken.
5Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.
6So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.
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Open the full verse study28Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses.
From verse 26
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Open the full verse study21He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men.
22He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he back from the sword.
23The quiver rattleth against him, the glittering spear and the shield.
24He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet.
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