KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Job 41:25–28
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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.
Job 41:28
28The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble.
28The arrow cannot make him flee: sling-stones are turned with him into stubble.
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DEFINED WORDS
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.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To grasp, keep, possess, restrain, maintain, regard, or account, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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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)
DEFINED WORDS
Job 41:28
A pointed missile shot from a bow.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Is unable to; is not able to.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To form, produce, cause, or carry out what the verse states.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To run or hasten away, especially from danger or expected evil.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
slingstones
Stones prepared or chosen to be cast with slings.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Moved in a circle; changed.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The cut, dry remnants of grain stalks, literally or as a figure of what is easily scattered or burned.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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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.
From verse 28
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Open the full verse study10And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it.
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Open the full verse study7He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver.
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