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Luke 3:17
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Luke 3:17
17Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.
17Whose fanne is in his hand, and he will thorowly purge his floore, and will gather the wheat into his garner, but the chaffe he will burne with fire vnquencheable.
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DEFINED WORDS
Luke 3:17
An instrument for winnowing grain by separating chaff from it.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828
The part of the body at the end of the arm; figuratively, power, possession, aid, or agency.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Completely, fully, or in every part.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To cleanse, purify, or clear away.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A level surface underfoot; especially a threshing floor where grain is separated.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
To collect, bring together, or assemble.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
A grain-bearing plant and its seed, commonly ground into flour for bread.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
A granary or storehouse for grain.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
But; marking a contrast or qualification in the sentence.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
People, works, kingdoms, or outcomes compared by the verse to light, worthless husks driven away or burned.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To consume, injure, heat, dry, or harden by fire or intense heat; also to be on fire.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Flame and burning heat; figuratively, fiery trial, judgment, zeal, or anger; to kindle or burn.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
unquenchable
That cannot be quenched; that will never be extinguished; inextinguishable.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
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Open the full verse study7And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people, since they return not from their ways.
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Open the full verse study30Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.
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Open the full verse study12But they know not the thoughts of the Lord, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor.
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Open the full verse study4The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
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Open the full verse study24The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.
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Open the full verse study12Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
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Open the full verse study9Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the Lord shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.
10Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.
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Open the full verse study43And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
44Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
45And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
46Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
47And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire:
48Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
49For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.
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