KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Mark 6:38–40
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Mark 6:38
38He saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? go and see. And when they knew, they say, Five, and two fishes.
38He saith vnto them, How many loaues haue yee? goe, and see. And when they knew, they say, Fiue, and two fishes.
Mark 6:39
39And he commanded them to make all sit down by companies upon the green grass.
39And he commanded them to make all sit downe by companies vpon the greene grasse.
Mark 6:40
40And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds, and by fifties.
40And they sate downe in rankes by hundreds, and by fifties.
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DEFINED WORDS
Mark 6:38
A great number; numerous persons or things.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Portions or shaped masses of bread baked as separate units.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
To perceive with the eyes; to behold, observe, understand, consider, experience, or take heed, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Perceived, understood, recognized, or was acquainted with.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
To speak, declare, tell, or express; also what is said.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The number following four and preceding six.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
The number equal to one and one.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Aquatic animals; as a verb, catches fish.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Mark 6:39
Ordered; directed.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To form, produce, cause, or carry out what the verse states.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
From a higher place or position to a lower one; below.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Groups of persons associated or gathered together; fellowships or bands.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Having the color of living vegetation; fresh, flourishing, or not dried.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Low green herbage growing from the ground; by extension, plants used for pasture.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
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Mark 6:40
Rested or was placed in a seated position.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
From a higher place or position to a lower one; below.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Rows, orders, positions, or classes.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The number equal to ten times ten.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Groups or numbers of fifty.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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From verse 38
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Open the full verse study5And he asked them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven.
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Open the full verse study34And Jesus saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven, and a few little fishes.
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Open the full verse study9There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many?
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Open the full verse study13But he said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they said, We have no more but five loaves and two fishes; except we should go and buy meat for all this people.
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Open the full verse study17And they say unto him, We have here but five loaves, and two fishes.
18He said, Bring them hither to me.
From verse 39
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Open the full verse study33For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
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Open the full verse study40Let all things be done decently and in order.
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Open the full verse study35And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground.
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Open the full verse study5And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he went up unto the house of the Lord; there was no more spirit in her.
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Open the full verse study5And when these days were expired, the king made a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both unto great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king’s palace;
6Where were white, green, and blue, hangings, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the beds were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black, marble.
From verse 40
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Open the full verse study14For they were about five thousand men. And he said to his disciples, Make them sit down by fifties in a company.
15And they did so, and made them all sit down.
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