KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Numbers 16:30–31
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Numbers 16:30
30But if the Lord make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the Lord.
30But if the LORD †make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them vp, with all that appertaine vnto them, and they go downe quicke into the pit: then ye shall vnderstand that these men haue prouoked the LORD.
- Hebr. create a creature.
Numbers 16:31
31¶ And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them:
31¶ *And it came to passe as he had made an ende of speaking all these words, that the ground claue asunder that was vnder them:
- Chap. 27.3. deut. 11.6. psal. 106.17.
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DEFINED WORDS
Numbers 16:30
However; introducing a contrast with what precedes.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
LORD: The name of God the Father in English, from the Hebrew Tetragrammaton YHWH, also rendered GOD and JEHOVAH. Lord: A title applied to God and Christ as ruler and master, the one to whom worship and obedience are due. lord: A male master, owner, ruler, or superior addressed or described as one having authority.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
To form, produce, cause, or carry out what the verse states.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Recently made, begun, known, or received; fresh, different, or not old.
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)
Unclosed, uncovered, or manifest; as a verb, to uncover, reveal, or explain.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The opening used for eating and speaking; also an opening, edge, command, or testimony by extension.
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Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
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To belong, whether by right, nature or appointment.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
From a higher place or position to a lower one; below.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Living or alive; able to make alive, according to context.
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APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
understand
To comprehend, perceive, discern, or know the meaning or significance of something.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Stirred up, incited, aroused, offended, or made angry.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
DEFINED WORDS
Numbers 16:31
To go by, through, over, or beyond; to happen, cease, or be transferred.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Formed, caused, prepared, appointed, or brought into a stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
The last or concluding part; a termination, limit, purpose, or result. As a verb, to cease or bring to a close.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Spoken or written expressions; sayings, messages, commands, promises, or accounts.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The earth or soil; a foundation, basis, or reason; also to establish firmly.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Did split or divide apart.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 30
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Open the full verse study15Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.
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Open the full verse study33They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation.
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Open the full verse study3Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
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Open the full verse study21For the Lord shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.
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Open the full verse study19Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
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Open the full verse study12I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.
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Open the full verse study7I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.
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Open the full verse study22¶ How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the Lord hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.
From verse 31
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Open the full verse study6And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the substance that was in their possession, in the midst of all Israel:
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Open the full verse study3Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the company of them that gathered themselves together against the Lord in the company of Korah; but died in his own sin, and had no sons.
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Open the full verse study17The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.
18And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.
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Open the full verse study10And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, what time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men: and they became a sign.
11Notwithstanding the children of Korah died not.
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