KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Matthew 5:5–6
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Matthew 5:5
5Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
5*Blessed are the meeke: for they shall inherit the earth.
- Psa. 37.11.
Matthew 5:6
6Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
6Blessed are they which doe hunger and thirst after righteousnesse: *for they shall be filled.
- Esa. 65.13.
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DEFINED WORDS
Matthew 5:5
Favored by God; happy or spiritually prosperous; or praised, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Gentle, humble, patient, and not self-asserting or harsh.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To receive, possess, or enjoy as an heir, allotment, gift, or lasting possession.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The ground or dry land; the world or inhabited realm; or a country and its people, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE)
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Matthew 5:6
Favored by God; happy or spiritually prosperous; or praised, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
The bodily craving or need for food; as a verb, to feel that need or earnestly desire.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
A strong need or desire for drink; by figure, an intense desire for something.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Later than, behind, following, or in pursuit of, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
righteousness
The state or character of being righteous; justice, uprightness, or conformity to what is right.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Made full; supplied with abundance.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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From verse 5
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Open the full verse study11But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.
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Open the full verse study19The meek also shall increase their joy in the Lord, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
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Open the full verse study13Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
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Open the full verse study4For the Lord taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation.
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Open the full verse study23Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
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Open the full verse study12Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
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Open the full verse study29Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
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Open the full verse study3(Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth.)
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Open the full verse study9The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way.
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Open the full verse study21Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
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Open the full verse study2With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
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Open the full verse study15But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
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Open the full verse study3Seek ye the Lord, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the Lord’s anger.
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Open the full verse study2To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.
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Open the full verse study4But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
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Open the full verse study13His soul shall dwell at ease; and his seed shall inherit the earth.
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Open the full verse study22For such as be blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and they that be cursed of him shall be cut off.
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Open the full verse study29The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever.
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Open the full verse study9For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the Lord, they shall inherit the earth.
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Open the full verse study32The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.
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Open the full verse study4But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
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Open the full verse study13For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
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Open the full verse study11But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
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Open the full verse study6The Lord lifteth up the meek: he casteth the wicked down to the ground.
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Open the full verse study25In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;
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Open the full verse study5Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.
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Open the full verse study34Wait on the Lord, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it.
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Open the full verse study21Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.
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Open the full verse study1THE Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;
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Open the full verse study26The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the Lord that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.
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Open the full verse study14But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
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Open the full verse study9For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.
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Open the full verse study27Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
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Open the full verse study48I am that bread of life.
49Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
50This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.
51I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
52The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?
53Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
54Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
55For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
56He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.
57As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.
58This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.
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Open the full verse study19He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them.
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Open the full verse study1HO, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
2Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
3Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
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Open the full verse study37In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
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Open the full verse study21Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled. Blessed are ye that weep now: for ye shall laugh.
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Open the full verse study16They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.
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Open the full verse study1AS the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
2My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?
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Open the full verse study3For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring:
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Open the full verse study1O GOD, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
2To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary.
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Open the full verse study11¶ Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord:
12And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it.
13In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.
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Open the full verse study53He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away.
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Open the full verse study4Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple.
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Open the full verse study13Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed:
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Open the full verse study6There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? Lord, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.
7Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.
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Open the full verse study2My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
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Open the full verse study9That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.
10They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.
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Open the full verse study15As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.
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Open the full verse study17When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the Lord will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
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Open the full verse study6¶ And in this mountain shall the Lord of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
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Open the full verse study25Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.
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Open the full verse study5My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips:
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Open the full verse study1I AM come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.
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Open the full verse study11That ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; that ye may milk out, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.
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