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Numbers 31:17
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Numbers 31:17
17Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
17Now therefore *kill euery male among the little ones, and kill euery woman that hath knowen man, by lying with †him.
- Hebr. a male.
- Iudg. 21.11.
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DEFINED WORDS
Numbers 31:17
To deprive of life; to slay or destroy.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Each one of all; all taken separately, without exception in the stated group.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Of the sex that begets offspring; a man or male animal.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Persons or things considered individually or as members of a stated class.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Recognized, understood, perceived, acknowledged, or made evident.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A human being; an adult male; a person, husband, servant, or representative, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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From verse 17
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Open the full verse study16But of the cities of these people, which the Lord thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth:
17But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee:
18That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the Lord your God.
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Open the full verse study2And when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:
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Open the full verse study11And this is the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.
12And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgins, that had known no man by lying with any male: and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.
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