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Psalms 21:11

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For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.
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  1. Psalms 10:2Rank 1 from verse 11
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    2The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

  2. Psalms 2:1Rank 2 from verse 11
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    1WHY do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?

  3. Jeremiah 11:18–19Rank 3 from verse 11
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    18¶ And the Lord hath given me knowledge of it, and I know it: then thou shewedst me their doings.

    19But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.

  4. Psalms 31:13Rank 4 from verse 11
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    13For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

  5. Isaiah 7:6–7Rank 5 from verse 11
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    6Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeal:

    7Thus saith the Lord God, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.

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Psalms 21:11

COMBINED MEANING

for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

intended

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of intend, meaning to meditate, plan, plot.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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evil

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Sense 1: Moral wickedness, sin, wrong, or corruption. Sense 2: Harm, misery, calamity, adversity, or punishment.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

against

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Opposed to, contrary to, facing, toward, or in contact with; in some settings, exposed to or ready for a stated time.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893

COMBINED MEANING

imagined

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of imagine, meaning to form an idea, purpose, or plan in the mind.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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which

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1. An interrogative or relative pronoun identifying one or more persons or things from a stated or implied set. 2. That which; what.

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able

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Having physical power sufficient; having competent power or strength, bodily or mental.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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10Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.

11For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.

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12Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.

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