KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Leviticus 11:21–22
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Leviticus 11:21
21Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth;
21Yet these may ye eat, of euery flying creeping thing that goeth vpon all foure, which haue legges aboue their feet, to leape withall vpon the earth.
Leviticus 11:22
22Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.
22Euen these of them ye may eate: the Locust, after his kinde, and the Bald-locust after his kinde, and the Beetle after his kinde, and the Grassehopper after his kinde.
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DEFINED WORDS
Leviticus 11:21
To take food into the body; to consume, devour, or waste away, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Each one of all; all taken separately, without exception in the stated group.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Moving in air by means of wings; passing rapidly; springing; bursting; avoiding.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Moving on the belly, or close to the surface of the earth or other body; moving slowly, secretly, or silently; moving insensibly; stealing along.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The number following three and preceding five.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Limbs used for supporting the body and for walking or running.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To spring or rise from the ground with both feet, as man, or with all the feet, as other animals; to jump; to vault.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The ground or dry land; the world or inhabited realm; or a country and its people, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE)
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Leviticus 11:22
Indeed or precisely; adding emphasis to what follows.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To take food into the body; to consume, devour, or waste away, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
A large grasshopper-like insect that travels in swarms.
Meaning drawn from: 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)
A class, sort, or nature.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Part of the KJV name 'bald locust,' identifying the named edible locust kind.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The winged creeping creature called a beetle in Leviticus 11:22; the KJV does not identify it with a particular modern species.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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grasshopper
The small leaping insect called a grasshopper in the KJV; the entry does not impose a particular modern species.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study6And John was clothed with camel’s hair, and with a girdle of a skin about his loins; and he did eat locusts and wild honey;
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Open the full verse study4And the same John had his raiment of camel’s hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.
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Open the full verse study4Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast:
5And they shall cover the face of the earth, that one cannot be able to see the earth: and they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped, which remaineth unto you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which groweth for you out of the field:
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Open the full verse study12Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
13And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.
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Open the full verse study11Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.
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Open the full verse study3¶ Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
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Open the full verse study1HIM that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.
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Open the full verse study1WE then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
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