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Luke 2:12
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Luke 2:12
12And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
12And this shall be a signe vnto you; yee shall find the babe wrapped in swadling clothes lying in a manger.
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Luke 2:12
To discover, meet with, obtain, perceive, or learn by search or experience.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
An infant or very young child; figuratively, one immature in understanding.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Wound, folded, covered, or enclosed in or with something.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Swathing; binding in tight clothes.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Garments, dress, or cloth coverings and wrappings worn on or around the body.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 (facsimile-linked witness) · Strong's Exhaustive Concordance 1890 (occurrence-specific) · KJV usage (PCE)
A trough or box in which fodder is laid for cattle, or the place in which horses and cattle are fed.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study14Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
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Open the full verse study1WHO hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?
2For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
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Open the full verse study11Ask thee a sign of the Lord thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.
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Open the full verse study6But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
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Open the full verse study29And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such things as grow of themselves, and in the second year that which springeth of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof.
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Open the full verse study2When thou art departed from me to day, then thou shalt find two men by Rachel’s sepulchre in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will say unto thee, The asses which thou wentest to seek are found: and, lo, thy father hath left the care of the asses, and sorroweth for you, saying, What shall I do for my son?
3Then shalt thou go on forward from thence, and thou shalt come to the plain of Tabor, and there shall meet thee three men going up to God to Beth-el, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine:
4And they will salute thee, and give thee two loaves of bread; which thou shalt receive of their hands.
5After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where is the garrison of the Philistines: and it shall come to pass, when thou art come thither to the city, that thou shalt meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place with a psaltery, and a tabret, and a pipe, and a harp, before them; and they shall prophesy:
6And the Spirit of the Lord will come upon thee, and thou shalt prophesy with them, and shalt be turned into another man.
7And let it be, when these signs are come unto thee, that thou do as occasion serve thee; for God is with thee.
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Open the full verse study34And this shall be a sign unto thee, that shall come upon thy two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas; in one day they shall die both of them.
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Open the full verse study8¶ And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What shall be the sign that the Lord will heal me, and that I shall go up into the house of the Lord the third day?
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Open the full verse study12And he said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be a token unto thee, that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.
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