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Malachi 2:3
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Malachi 2:3
3Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it.
3‖†‖Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread doung vpon your faces, euen the doung of your solemne feasts, and one shall take you away with it.
- Or, reproue.
- Heb. scatter.
- Or, it shall take you away to it.
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DEFINED WORDS
Malachi 2:3
To look upon or see; as an interjection, look or take notice.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Spoiled, bad, or decayed.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To extend, unfold, scatter, disperse, or cover a wider area.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Indeed or precisely; adding emphasis to what follows.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Anniversary; observed once a year with religious ceremonies.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Festival meals or appointed times of celebration and worship.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The number one; a single person or thing; the same or united as a whole.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To receive, seize, carry, accept, choose, or lay hold of, with the exact sense determined by context.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
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Open the full verse study6And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.
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Open the full verse study9Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.
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Open the full verse study10Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone.
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Open the full verse study14But the flesh of the bullock, and his skin, and his dung, shalt thou burn with fire without the camp: it is a sin offering.
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Open the full verse study7Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
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Open the full verse study17The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.
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Open the full verse study13Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.
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Open the full verse study29Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?
30Wherefore the Lord God of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the Lord saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
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Open the full verse study36Wherefore they came again, and told him. And he said, This is the word of the Lord, which he spake by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel:
37And the carcase of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel; so that they shall not say, This is Jezebel.
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Open the full verse study2And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.
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Open the full verse study35It is neither fit for the land, nor yet for the dunghill; but men cast it out. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
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Open the full verse study10Which perished at En-dor: they became as dung for the earth.
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