Psalms 135:17
They have ears, but they hear not; neither is there any breath in their mouths.
They haue eares, but they heare not: neither is there any breath in their mouthes.
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Psalms 135:17
Plural form of ear. Sense 1: The organ of hearing. Sense 2: The seed-bearing head of grain.
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Sense 1: However; marking contrast or qualification. Sense 2: Except or unless; excluding all others or alternatives. Sense 3: Only; no more than what follows.
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Sense 1: To perceive sound or spoken words. Sense 2: To receive or learn by report. Sense 3: To listen to, regard, or heed. Sense 4: To attend favourably to a request.
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1. Also not; nor, introducing or joining a further negative statement or prohibition. 2. Not either, or none, of the alternatives named, commonly in a neither ... nor construction.
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Sense 1: Air drawn in or breathed out. Sense 2: The breath by which bodily life is sustained; by extension, bodily life.
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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.
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Sense 1: The opening used for eating and speaking. Sense 2: An opening, edge, command, or testimony by extension.
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16They have mouths, but they speak not; eyes have they, but they see not;
16They haue mouthes, but they speake not: eyes haue they, but they see not:
17They have ears, but they hear not; neither is there any breath in their mouths.
17They haue eares, but they heare not: neither is there any breath in their mouthes.
Selected passage18They that make them are like unto them: so is every one that trusteth in them.
18They that make them are like vnto them: so is euery one that trusteth in them.