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Luke 15:16
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Luke 15:16
16And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.
16And he would faine haue filled his belly with the huskes that the swine did eate: & no man gaue vnto him.
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Luke 15:16
Gladly or willingly; desirous of doing something.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Made full; supplied with abundance.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The external covering of certain fruits, seeds, or grain.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828
A pig or hog; collectively, pigs.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
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 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)
Bestowed, delivered, granted, or caused, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
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Open the full verse study19I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
20For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.
21What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
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Open the full verse study1EPHRAIM feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.
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Open the full verse study20He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
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Open the full verse study2Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
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Open the full verse study3¶ But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.
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Open the full verse study2And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the Lord, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.
3For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.
4Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.
5The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.
6I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O Lord my God.
7When my soul fainted within me I remembered the Lord: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.
8They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
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Open the full verse study5They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
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Open the full verse study4I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.
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Open the full verse study22So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.
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