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Leviticus 25:23
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Leviticus 25:23
23¶ The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
23¶ The land shall not be sold ‖for euer: for the land is mine, for ye were strangers and soiourners with me.
- Or, to bee quite cut off. Hebr. for cutting off.
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DEFINED WORDS
Leviticus 25:23
The ground or earth; a country, territory, or region.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Transferred for a price or gave over.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
At any time; always; continually; or forever, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
sojourners
Persons dwelling temporarily in a place as strangers.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Open the full verse study11Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
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Open the full verse study14And they shall not sell of it, neither exchange, nor alienate the firstfruits of the land: for it is holy unto the Lord.
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Open the full verse study15For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.
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Open the full verse study1THE earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
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Open the full verse study12Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
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Open the full verse study43Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.
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Open the full verse study5Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
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Open the full verse study4I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
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Open the full verse study20Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations.
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Open the full verse study9And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
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Open the full verse study9By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
10For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
11Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.
12Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.
13These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
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Open the full verse study3They shall not dwell in the Lord’s land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.
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Open the full verse study18¶ Then will the Lord be jealous for his land, and pity his people.
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Open the full verse study2I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
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Open the full verse study10And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.
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Open the full verse study19I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.
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Open the full verse study1LORD, thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob.
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Open the full verse study3And Naboth said to Ahab, The Lord forbid it me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers unto thee.
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Open the full verse study8And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.
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