Luke 8:30
And Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion: because many devils were entered into him.
And Iesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion: because many deuils were entred into him.
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Luke 8:30
Sense 1: A word, appellation, or designation by which a person or thing is called or known. Sense 2: The person or persons named or represented. Sense 3: Reputation, character, renown, or remembrance. Sense 4: The authority, behalf, or standing represented by a name. Sense 5: As a verb, to call, designate, or mention by name.
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Spoke, declared, reported, commanded, or expressed in words.
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The name given by the unclean spirits possessing the man, because they were many.
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Evil spirits opposed to God.
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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of enter, meaning to go or come in; to penetrate; to become an ingredient or constituent part; to enter the mind.
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29(For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was driven of the devil into the wilderness.)
29(For he had commanded the vncleane spirit to come out of the man: For oftentimes it had caught him, and he was kept bound with chaines, and in fetters: and he brake the bands, and was driuen of the deuil into the wildernesse.)
30And Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion: because many devils were entered into him.
30And Iesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion: because many deuils were entred into him.
Selected passage31And they besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep.
31And they besought him, that he would not command them to goe out into the deepe.