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Psalms 70:2
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Psalms 70:2
2Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.
2Let them be ashamed and confounded that seeke after my soule: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.
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DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 70:2
To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
confounded
Confused, perplexed, mixed in disorder, dismayed, or put to shame.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Later than, behind, following, or in pursuit of, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Moved in a circle; changed.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Driven or turned back in defeat, disappointment, confusion, or frustrated counsel.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To place, set, lay, appoint, bring into a condition, or cause to be, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Disorder, shame, overthrow, or a mingling without proper distinction, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Bullokar 1616 · Skeat 1893
To wish for, long for, request, or take pleasure in.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To harm; to damage; to injure by occasioning loss.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
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Open the full verse study4Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.
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Open the full verse study26Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.
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Open the full verse study11Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish.
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Open the full verse study6As soon then as he had said unto them, I am he, they went backward, and fell to the ground.
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Open the full verse study29Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.
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Open the full verse study13Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.
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Open the full verse study10Let all mine enemies be ashamed and sore vexed: let them return and be ashamed suddenly.
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Open the full verse study13But the word of the Lord was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
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