Judges 1:6
But Adoni-bezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.
But Adoni-bezek fled, and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbes, and his great toes.
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Judges 1:6
Sense 1: However; marking contrast or qualification. Sense 2: Except or unless; excluding all others or alternatives. Sense 3: Only; no more than what follows.
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Past-tense or past-participial form of flee (to run or hasten away, especially from danger or expected evil).
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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of pursue. Sense 1: To follow or chase in order to overtake. Sense 2: To seek after and continue earnestly toward an aim.
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1. Later than or following in time or order. 2. Behind. 3. In pursuit of.
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Seized, grasped, captured, taken, overtaken, trapped, or held fast.
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Sense 1: To divide, sever, remove, or wound with a sharp instrument. Sense 2: Figuratively, to grieve deeply or bring to an end.
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Plural form of thumb (the short, thick first digit of the hand).
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The small members forming the front extremities of the feet.
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5And they found Adoni-bezek in Bezek: and they fought against him, and they slew the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
5And they found Adoni-bezek in Bezek: and they fought against him, and they slew the Canaanites, and the Perizzites.
6But Adoni-bezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.
6But Adoni-bezek fled, and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbes, and his great toes.
Selected passage7And Adoni-bezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died.
7And Adoni-bezek said, Threescore & ten kings, hauing †their thumbs and their great toes cut off, ‖gathered their meate vnder my table: as I haue done, so God hath requited mee, and they brought him to Ierusalem, and there he died.