KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Psalms 22:20–21
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Psalms 22:20
20Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.
20††Deliuer my soule from the sword: my darling from the power of the dogge.
- Heb. my only one.
- Heb. from the hand.
Psalms 22:21
21Save me from the lion’s mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.
21Saue me from the lyons mouth: for thou hast heard me from the hornes of the vnicornes.
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DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 22:20
To rescue, set free, hand over, give up, or bring forth, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Beloved one. Dearly beloved; favorite; regarded with great kindness and tenderness.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Ability, strength, authority, dominion, or the right and capacity to act.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
A domestic canine; figuratively, a contemptible, hostile, or unclean person.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Psalms 22:21
To rescue, preserve, deliver, or keep from loss or danger.
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A large, powerful wild cat; figuratively, one fierce or strong.
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The opening used for eating and speaking; also an opening, edge, command, or testimony by extension.
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Have: possess, hold, receive, or experience; also used as an auxiliary verb.
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Powerful horned wild animals of uncertain specific identity.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 20
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Open the full verse study17Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.
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Open the full verse study7¶ Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the Lord of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.
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Open the full verse study13Arise, O Lord, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword:
From verse 21
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Open the full verse study17Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
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Open the full verse study8Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
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Open the full verse study27For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together,
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Open the full verse study30Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.
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Open the full verse study22God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.
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Open the full verse study7And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
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Open the full verse study59Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.
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Open the full verse study30The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree.
31Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.
32And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.
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Open the full verse study17His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.
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Open the full verse study9Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?
10Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?
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Open the full verse study53When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched forth no hands against me: but this is your hour, and the power of darkness.
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