KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Job 8:11–12
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Job 8:11
11Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?
11Can the rush growe vp without myre? can the flag growe without water?
Job 8:12
12Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.
12*Whilest it is yet in his greennesse, and not cut downe, it withereth before any other herbe.
- Psal. 129.6. ier. 17.6.
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 8:11
The plant called a rush, associated with wet ground.
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To come forward; to advance.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage
Outside; not within; lacking; free from; or in the absence of.
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Wet, muddy ground; mud or filth.
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A marsh or water plant, especially a reed-like plant.
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The common liquid necessary for life; as a verb, to supply with water, irrigate, or cause to drink.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Job 8:12
While; during the time that, or although, according to context.
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Freshness; vigor; Immaturity; unripeness; in a literal or figurative sense; Newness.
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To divide, sever, remove, or wound with a sharp instrument; figuratively, to grieve deeply or bring to an end.
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From a higher place or position to a lower one; below.
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Withers; dries up, fades, loses strength, or wastes away.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Earlier than in time; in front of; in the presence of; or prior in order or rank, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
One, some, or every member or amount of an indefinite number or quantity, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A different or additional person or thing; the remaining one of two or more.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Skeat, Bible Words Glossary (1893) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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From verse 11
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Open the full verse study3And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink.
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Open the full verse study5And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
6And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.
7The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.
From verse 12
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Open the full verse study6For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
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Open the full verse study24For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
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Open the full verse study10But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
11For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
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Open the full verse study20But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it;
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Open the full verse study6Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:
7Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.
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