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Psalms 1:4
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Psalms 1:4
4The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
4The vngodly are not so: but are *like the chaffe, which the winde driueth away.
- Psal.34.5. isa.17.13.
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DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 1:4
Impious, wicked, or lacking reverence toward God.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
But; marking a contrast or qualification in the sentence.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Similar or of the same kind; in the same manner; likely; or, as a verb, to please.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828
People, works, kingdoms, or outcomes compared by the verse to light, worthless husks driven away or burned.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Breath; power of respiration. Air in motion with any degree of velocity, indefinitely; a current of air.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To force, urge, guide, or cause to move forward.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
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From verse 4
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Open the full verse study18They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
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Open the full verse study12Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
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Open the full verse study5Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the Lord chase them.
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Open the full verse study13The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
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Open the full verse study3Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.
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Open the full verse study5Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.
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