KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Psalms 104:16–17
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Psalms 104:16
16The trees of the Lord are full of sap; the cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted;
16The trees of the LORD are full of sappe: the cedars of Lebanon which he hath planted.
Psalms 104:17
17Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house.
17Where the birds make their nests: as for the Storke, the firre trees are her house.
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DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 104:16
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
The vital fluid or moisture of a plant.
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Large, fragrant evergreen trees valued for durable timber.
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Set in the earth for propagation; set; fixed; introduced; estab lished.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
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Psalms 104:17
To form, produce, cause, or carry out what the verse states.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Places prepared by birds for eggs and young; figuratively, dwellings, refuges, secure positions, or accumulated possessions.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
The large migratory wading bird known as the stork.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A building or dwelling; the people of a household or family; a lineage or family line; as a verb, to shelter, lodge, or provide a dwelling for.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 16
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Open the full verse study6As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river’s side, as the trees of lign aloes which the Lord hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters.
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Open the full verse study5The voice of the Lord breaketh the cedars; yea, the Lord breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.
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Open the full verse study2To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night,
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Open the full verse study23In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it: and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing; in the shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell.
From verse 17
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Open the full verse study12By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, which sing among the branches.
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Open the full verse study19And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
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Open the full verse study21Whose leaves were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all; under which the beasts of the field dwelt, and upon whose branches the fowls of the heaven had their habitation:
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Open the full verse study6All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.
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Open the full verse study23O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!
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Open the full verse study7Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord.
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Open the full verse study32Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
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Open the full verse study4Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord.
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