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Nahum 3:6
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Nahum 3:6
6And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.
6And I will cast abominable filth vpon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazing stocke.
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DEFINED WORDS
Nahum 3:6
To throw, send forth, place, reckon, or discard, with the exact sense determined by context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Dirt, foul matter, pollution, or moral defilement.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To form, produce, cause, or carry out what the verse states.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Base, shameful, contemptible, or of little worth.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To place, fix, appoint, establish, or prescribe; also fixed or determined.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
gazingstock
A person or object exposed to public gaze, wonder, contempt, or reproach.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828
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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 study37And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.
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Open the full verse study31Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
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Open the full verse study5My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
6I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
7For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
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Open the full verse study9For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.
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Open the full verse study33Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.
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Open the full verse study8They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
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Open the full verse study14And the Lord hath given a commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will make thy grave; for thou art vile.
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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 study7Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:
8And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the Lord done thus unto this land, and to this house?
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Open the full verse study16They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;
17That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?
18All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.
19But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.
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Open the full verse study19He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
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Open the full verse study7Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
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Open the full verse study16He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
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Open the full verse study2If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the Lord of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.
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Open the full verse study15This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.
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