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Proverbs 21:1
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Proverbs 21:1
1THE king’s heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.
1¶ The kings heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the riuers of water: hee turneth it whithersoeuer he will.
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DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 21:1
A sovereign ruler; one who reigns over a people or realm.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage
The bodily organ; more often in Scripture, the inward person—the mind, will, affections, conscience, or moral character—according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
The part of the body at the end of the arm; figuratively, power, possession, aid, or agency.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage
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 · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
The common liquid necessary for life; as a verb, to supply with water, irrigate, or cause to drink.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Turns; changes direction, returns, converts, or changes from one state or course to another.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
whithersoever
To whatever place or wherever the action leads.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage
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Open the full verse study9A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps.
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Open the full verse study22And kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy: for the Lord had made them joyful, and turned the heart of the king of Assyria unto them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.
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Open the full verse study24Man’s goings are of the Lord; how can a man then understand his own way?
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Open the full verse study10And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.
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Open the full verse study1THE preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the Lord.
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Open the full verse study27¶ Blessed be the Lord God of our fathers, which hath put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to beautify the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem:
28And hath extended mercy unto me before the king, and his counsellers, and before all the king’s mighty princes. And I was strengthened as the hand of the Lord my God was upon me, and I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.
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Open the full verse study35And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?
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Open the full verse study46He made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them captives.
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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 study4Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.
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Open the full verse study11O Lord, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who desire to fear thy name: and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I was the king’s cupbearer.
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Open the full verse study25He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants.
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Open the full verse study15Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.
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Open the full verse study4The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.
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Open the full verse study27That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:
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Open the full verse study4And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
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Open the full verse study3The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.
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Open the full verse study12And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
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Open the full verse study5What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?
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