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Numbers 22:25

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And when the ass saw the angel of the Lord, she thrust herself unto the wall, and crushed Balaam’s foot against the wall: and he smote her again.
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  1. Isaiah 47:12Rank 1 from verse 25
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    12Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.

  2. Job 5:13–15Rank 2 from verse 25
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    13He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.

    14They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.

    15But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.

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Numbers 22:25

COMBINED MEANING

angel

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Sense 1: A messenger. Sense 2: A heavenly or spiritual messenger, whether holy or fallen as stated.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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wall

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Sense 1: A structure raised to enclose, divide, or defend a place. Sense 2: Figuratively, a defense or protection.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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crushed

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of crush, meaning to press or break by force; to bruise, destroy, or subdue.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

foot

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Sense 1: The lower extremity used for standing or walking. Sense 2: A measure, base, or lowest part. Sense 3: As a verb, to tread or walk.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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against

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Opposed to, contrary to, facing, toward, or in contact with; in some settings, exposed to or ready for a stated time.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893

COMBINED MEANING

smote

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1. Struck or dealt a blow to a person or thing with a hand, weapon, instrument, object, or force. 2. Attacked, defeated, slew, destroyed, or devastated a person, army, city, people, or land. 3. Afflicted, injured, or visited with disease, plague, blindness, calamity, or judgment. 4. Of the heart, convicted, troubled, or reproved inwardly.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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again

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Another time; once more; back to a former place or condition; or in return.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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24But the angel of the Lord stood in a path of the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side.

25And when the ass saw the angel of the Lord, she thrust herself unto the wall, and crushed Balaam’s foot against the wall: and he smote her again.

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26And the angel of the Lord went further, and stood in a narrow place, where was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left.

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