KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
John 5:3–5
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John 5:3
3In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
3In these lay a great multitude of impotent folke, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the mouing of the water.
John 5:4
4For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
4For an Angel went downe at a certaine season into the poole, and troubled the water: whosoeuer then first after the troubling of the water stepped in, was made whole of whatsoeuer disease he had.
John 5:5
5And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.
5And a certaine man was there, which had an infirmitie thirtie and eight yeeres.
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DEFINED WORDS
John 5:3
Place or set down; also rested or remained in a recumbent position, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Without power or strength; weak, infirm, or unable.
Meaning drawn from: Bullokar 1616 · Webster 1828
People in general, or any part of them without distinction.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Unable to see; lacking understanding; as a verb, to deprive of sight or discernment.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To limp, stop, or waver between choices.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Faded; dried; shrunk.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Remaining or attending in expectation, readiness, or service.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The stirring or movement of the water.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The common liquid necessary for life; as a verb, to supply with water, irrigate, or cause to drink.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
DEFINED WORDS
John 5:4
A messenger; especially a heavenly messenger sent by God.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
From a higher place or position to a lower one; below.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Sure, definite, established, or particular though not specifically named, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
An appointed time or period; as a verb, to prepare, mature, or make suitable.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Disturbed, distressed, afflicted, agitated, or perplexed; the past form of trouble.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
The common liquid necessary for life; as a verb, to supply with water, irrigate, or cause to drink.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Whoever; any person who, without restriction in the stated class.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Before all others in time, place, order, rank, or importance; the beginning or earliest.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Later than, behind, following, or in pursuit of, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Disturbing, agitating, or causing distress; also the stirring or agitation produced.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Moved by taking a step; entered, advanced, or placed the foot.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828
Formed, caused, prepared, appointed, or brought into a stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Entire, complete, or undivided; also sound or restored to health, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
whatsoever
Whatever; anything or everything that, without restriction in the stated class.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Sickness or an impaired condition of the body.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
DEFINED WORDS
John 5:5
Sure, definite, established, or particular though not specifically named, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
A human being; an adult male; a person, husband, servant, or representative, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Weakness, frailty, sickness, or affliction, whether bodily or otherwise as the verse states.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The number equal to three times ten.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Twice four; expressing the number twice four.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Periods of twelve months.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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From verse 3
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Open the full verse study1AND he entered again into the synagogue; and there was a man there which had a withered hand.
2And they watched him, whether he would heal him on the sabbath day; that they might accuse him.
3And he saith unto the man which had the withered hand, Stand forth.
4And he saith unto them, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill? But they held their peace.
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Open the full verse study22Then Jesus answering said unto them, Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached.
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Open the full verse study30And great multitudes came unto him, having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus’ feet; and he healed them:
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Open the full verse study17Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.
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Open the full verse study26It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.
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Open the full verse study7Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.
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Open the full verse study4And it came to pass, when king Jeroboam heard the saying of the man of God, which had cried against the altar in Beth-el, that he put forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him. And his hand, which he put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not pull it in again to him.
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Open the full verse study34Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
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Open the full verse study25But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
From verse 5
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Open the full verse study2And a certain man lame from his mother’s womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple;
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Open the full verse study43¶ And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any,
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Open the full verse study21And he asked his father, How long is it ago since this came unto him? And he said, Of a child.
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Open the full verse study8¶ And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother’s womb, who never had walked:
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Open the full verse study16And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?
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Open the full verse study33And there he found a certain man named Æneas, which had kept his bed eight years, and was sick of the palsy.
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Open the full verse study14Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.
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Open the full verse study1AND as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth.
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Open the full verse study22For the man was above forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was shewed.
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Open the full verse study21But by what means he now seeth, we know not; or who hath opened his eyes, we know not: he is of age; ask him: he shall speak for himself.
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