KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Matthew 4:15–16
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Matthew 4:15
15The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles;
15*The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthali, by the way of the Sea beyond Iordane, Galilee of the Gentiles:
- Esai. 9.1.
Matthew 4:16
16The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.
16The people which sate in darkenesse, saw great light: and to them which sate in the region and shadow of death, light is sprung vp.
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DEFINED WORDS
Matthew 4:15
The ground or earth; a country, territory, or region.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Persons of the nations; in the New Testament, persons distinguished from Jews.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Matthew 4:16
Persons collectively; a nation, community, or group considered as a body.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Rested or was placed in a seated position.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Absence of light; also obscurity, ignorance, distress, or moral evil by figure.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Visible brightness; something that gives illumination; not heavy; to kindle, illuminate, or come down upon, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
The figurative realm described by the full phrase 'region and shadow of death.'
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Shade from light; a dark outline; or a figure of protection, transience, or a coming reality, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Arose, grew, issued, or leaped forth, as the context indicates.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 15
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Open the full verse study1NEVERTHELESS the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.
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Open the full verse study32And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Hammoth-dor with her suburbs, and Kartan with her suburbs; three cities.
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Open the full verse study29In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abel-beth-maachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.
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Open the full verse study11(Now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
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Open the full verse study7¶ And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and Shechem in mount Ephraim, and Kirjath-arba, which is Hebron, in the mountain of Judah.
From verse 16
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Open the full verse study2The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
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Open the full verse study6I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;
7To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
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Open the full verse study78Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us,
79To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
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Open the full verse study1ARISE, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.
2For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.
3And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.
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Open the full verse study8¶ Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me.
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Open the full verse study32A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.
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Open the full verse study10Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;
11Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:
12Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help.
13Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.
14He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.
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Open the full verse study8Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The Lord is his name:
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Open the full verse study22There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
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Open the full verse study16Give glory to the Lord your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.
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Open the full verse study22A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
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Open the full verse study5Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
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Open the full verse study19Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
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