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Leviticus 25:16–17
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Leviticus 25:16
16According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it: for according to the number of the years of the fruits doth he sell unto thee.
16According to the multitude of yeeres, thou shalt encrease the price thereof, and according to the fewnesse of yeeres, thou shalt diminish the price of it: for according to the number of the yeeres of the fruites doeth hee sell vnto thee.
Leviticus 25:17
17Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I am the Lord your God.
17Yee shall not therefore oppresse one another; but thou shalt feare thy God: For I am the LORD your God.
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DEFINED WORDS
Leviticus 25:16
Agreeing or corresponding; in conformity with; as stated, measured, or directed by.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Periods of twelve months.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Growth or addition in number, amount, strength, or fruitfulness; as a verb, to become or make greater.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Smallness of number; paucity.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To lessen or make smaller.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
A count or quantity; also to count, reckon, appoint, or include among a group.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
The produce of a plant; offspring; or the result and effect of conduct, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To transfer or give over for a price; to betray or surrender, including giving oneself over to evil, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
DEFINED WORDS
Leviticus 25:17
To burden, crush, or treat with unjust severity or hardship.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The number one; a single person or thing; the same or united as a whole.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
One more; an additional or different person or thing.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE)
But; marking a contrast or qualification in the sentence.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Alarm or dread; reverent awe; as a verb, to be afraid, revere, or cause fear.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A deity or object of worship; when referring to the LORD, the one true God.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
LORD: The name of God the Father in English, from the Hebrew Tetragrammaton YHWH, also rendered GOD and JEHOVAH. Lord: A title applied to God and Christ as ruler and master, the one to whom worship and obedience are due. lord: A male master, owner, ruler, or superior addressed or described as one having authority.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
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From verse 16
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Open the full verse study27Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; that he may return unto his possession.
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Open the full verse study51If there be yet many years behind, according unto them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.
From verse 17
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Open the full verse study14¶ Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind, but shalt fear thy God: I am the Lord.
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Open the full verse study32¶ Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the Lord.
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Open the full verse study43Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God.
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Open the full verse study20And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.
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Open the full verse study18And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God:
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Open the full verse study14And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbour’s hand, ye shall not oppress one another:
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Open the full verse study24Only fear the Lord, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for consider how great things he hath done for you.
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Open the full verse study6That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.
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Open the full verse study7Wherefore now let the fear of the Lord be upon you; take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with the Lord our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts.
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Open the full verse study2A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway.
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Open the full verse study35But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.
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Open the full verse study31Then had the churches rest throughout all Judæa and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.
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Open the full verse study18How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God.
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Open the full verse study11And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife’s sake.
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Open the full verse study12And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.
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Open the full verse study9There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?
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Open the full verse study16He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the Lord.
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Open the full verse study5For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
6If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
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Open the full verse study5But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.
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Open the full verse study5And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts.
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Open the full verse study15But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.
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Open the full verse study9Also I said, It is not good that ye do: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies?
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Open the full verse study7¶ The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
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Open the full verse study22Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
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Open the full verse study9The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
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Open the full verse study20Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
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Open the full verse study18There is no fear of God before their eyes.
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