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Psalms 74:12–18

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For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.
Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.
The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.
Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O Lord, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
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From verse 12

  1. Isaiah 33:22Rank 1 from verse 12
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    22For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king; he will save us.

  2. Psalms 44:4Rank 2 from verse 12
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    4Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.

  3. Exodus 19:5–6Rank 3 from verse 12
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    5Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:

    6And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.

  4. 1 Samuel 19:5Rank 4 from verse 12
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    5For he did put his life in his hand, and slew the Philistine, and the Lord wrought a great salvation for all Israel: thou sawest it, and didst rejoice: wherefore then wilt thou sin against innocent blood, to slay David without a cause?

  5. Exodus 15:2–15Rank 5 from verse 12
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    2The Lord is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.

    3The Lord is a man of war: the Lord is his name.

    4Pharaoh’s chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea.

    5The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone.

    6Thy right hand, O Lord, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O Lord, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.

    7And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble.

    8And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as an heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.

    9The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.

    10Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters.

    11Who is like unto thee, O Lord, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?

    12Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them.

    13Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed: thou hast guided them in thy strength unto thy holy habitation.

    14The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina.

    15Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away.

From verse 13

  1. Exodus 14:21Rank 1 from verse 13
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    21And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.

  2. Psalms 78:13Rank 2 from verse 13
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    13He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.

  3. Ezekiel 29:3Rank 3 from verse 13
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    3Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.

  4. Isaiah 51:9–10Rank 4 from verse 13
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    9¶ Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?

    10Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?

  5. Ezekiel 32:2Rank 5 from verse 13
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    2Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.

From verse 14

  1. Isaiah 27:1Rank 1 from verse 14
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    1IN that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.

  2. Job 41:1–34Rank 2 from verse 14
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    1CANST thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?

    2Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?

    3Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?

    4Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?

    5Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?

    6Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?

    7Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?

    8Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.

    9Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?

    10None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?

    11Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.

    12I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion.

    13Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to him with his double bridle?

    14Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.

    15His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.

    16One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.

    17They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.

    18By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.

    19Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.

    20Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.

    21His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.

    22In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him.

    23The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.

    24His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.

    25When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves.

    26The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon.

    27He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.

    28The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble.

    29Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.

    30Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.

    31He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.

    32He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary.

    33Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.

    34He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.

  3. Psalms 72:9Rank 3 from verse 14
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    9They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust.

  4. Psalms 104:25–26Rank 4 from verse 14
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    25So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.

    26There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.

  5. Job 3:8Rank 5 from verse 14
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    8Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.

From verse 15

  1. Numbers 20:11Rank 1 from verse 15
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    11And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also.

  2. Exodus 17:5–6Rank 2 from verse 15
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    5And the Lord said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go.

    6Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.

  3. Isaiah 48:21Rank 3 from verse 15
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    21And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out.

  4. Joshua 3:13–17Rank 4 from verse 15
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    13And it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles of the feet of the priests that bear the ark of the Lord, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of Jordan, that the waters of Jordan shall be cut off from the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand upon an heap.

    14¶ And it came to pass, when the people removed from their tents, to pass over Jordan, and the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people;

    15And as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water, (for Jordan overfloweth all his banks all the time of harvest,)

    16That the waters which came down from above stood and rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that is beside Zaretan: and those that came down toward the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, failed, and were cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho.

    17And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people were passed clean over Jordan.

  5. Psalms 105:41Rank 5 from verse 15
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    41He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the dry places like a river.

From verse 16

  1. Genesis 1:3–5Rank 1 from verse 16
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    3And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

    4And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

    5And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

  2. Matthew 5:45Rank 2 from verse 16
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    45That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

  3. Psalms 136:7–9Rank 3 from verse 16
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    7To him that made great lights: for his mercy endureth for ever:

    8The sun to rule by day: for his mercy endureth for ever:

    9The moon and stars to rule by night: for his mercy endureth for ever.

  4. Genesis 1:14–18Rank 4 from verse 16
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    14¶ And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:

    15And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

    16And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

    17And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,

    18And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

  5. Psalms 104:19Rank 5 from verse 16
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    19He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down.

From verse 17

  1. Deuteronomy 32:8Rank 1 from verse 17
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    8When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.

  2. Acts 17:26Rank 2 from verse 17
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    26And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;

  3. Acts 14:17Rank 3 from verse 17
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    17Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.

  4. Genesis 8:22Rank 4 from verse 17
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    22While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

  5. Psalms 24:1–2Rank 5 from verse 17
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    1THE earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

    2For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.

From verse 18

  1. Psalms 39:8Rank 1 from verse 18
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    8Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.

  2. Deuteronomy 32:6Rank 2 from verse 18
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    6Do ye thus requite the Lord, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?

  3. Revelation 16:19Rank 3 from verse 18
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    19And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.

  4. Deuteronomy 32:27Rank 4 from verse 18
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    27Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the Lord hath not done all this.

  5. Ezekiel 20:14Rank 5 from verse 18
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    14But I wrought for my name’s sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.

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DEFINED WORDS

Psalms 74:12

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

king

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A sovereign ruler; one exercising royal authority over a kingdom.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

old

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1. Advanced in age or existing for a long time. 2. Of the stated or specified age. 3. Ancient, former, previous, or worn.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

in

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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.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

midst

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The middle, centre, interior, or intervening part of a place, body, company, or condition; among, within, surrounded by, or in the presence of persons or things.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

earth

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Sense 1: The world in distinction from heaven. Sense 2: Dry land, ground, soil, or dust. Sense 3: A land, region, or its inhabitants.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Psalms 74:13

COMBINED MEANING

thou

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The singular second-person subject pronoun, meaning you when directly addressing one person, being, or individually treated addressee.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

divide

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1. To apportion, distribute, share, or allot. 2. To separate or distinguish into parts, sides, groups, or portions.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

sea

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1. A great body or expanse of gathered waters, including a named sea or lake, in which ships and creatures move. 2. The large brazen or molten basin made for the temple and called a sea. 3. Something represented or compared as a sea.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

strength

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Power, might, force, ability, firmness, courage, capacity, support, defence, resources, or that by which a person or thing is enabled to stand, act, endure, overcome, or accomplish a work.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

dragons

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Large serpentine creatures and creatures of waste or desert places.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

in

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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.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Psalms 74:14

COMBINED MEANING

thou

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The singular second-person subject pronoun, meaning you when directly addressing one person, being, or individually treated addressee.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

in

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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.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

meat

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Sense 1: Food, nourishment, sustenance, or provision. Sense 2: Figuratively, that which nourishes or sustains.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

people

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Persons collectively; a nation, community, or group considered as a body.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

wilderness

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Uncultivated, desolate, sparsely inhabited, or uninhabited land; a desert, wild country, or solitary region.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Psalms 74:15

COMBINED MEANING

thou

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The singular second-person subject pronoun, meaning you when directly addressing one person, being, or individually treated addressee.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

cleave

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Sense 1: To split or divide. Sense 2: To cling closely or remain joined.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

mighty

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Possessing or displaying great strength, power, ability, rank, or effect.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Psalms 74:16

COMBINED MEANING

day

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Sense 1: Light or the period of light between morning and evening, as distinguished from night. Sense 2: A complete daily cycle. Sense 3: A specified time, occasion, period, age, or season.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

night

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1. The dark part of the daily cycle distinguished from day, from evening until morning, or any portion of it. 2. A time or condition compared with night or darkness.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

thou

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The singular second-person subject pronoun, meaning you when directly addressing one person, being, or individually treated addressee.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

hast

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Sense 1: Have: possess, hold, receive, or experience. Sense 2: Used as an auxiliary verb.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

light

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Sense 1: Brightness or illumination. Sense 2: A source or opening that gives light. Sense 3: Figuratively, truth, knowledge, revelation, life, or favour contrasted with darkness. Sense 4: To illuminate or kindle. Sense 5: To alight or come upon. Sense 6: Slight, easy, swift, or not heavy.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

sun

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The great light that rules the day and gives light and heat.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Psalms 74:17

COMBINED MEANING

thou

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The singular second-person subject pronoun, meaning you when directly addressing one person, being, or individually treated addressee.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

hast

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Sense 1: Have: possess, hold, receive, or experience. Sense 2: Used as an auxiliary verb.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

set

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1. To put or place a person or thing in a position, relation, or condition; when passive, to be so placed, fixed, or adorned. 2. To establish, fix, appoint, assign, prescribe, or determine. 3. To arrange, prepare, present, display, or put in order or array. 4. To direct, turn, or firmly apply the face, heart, eyes, mind, affection, or action toward something. 5. To start, advance, send out, proceed on a course or work, or make an attack, as in set forward, set forth, or set upon where those meanings apply. 6. To value or esteem; or, in set at nought or set light by, to despise. 7. Of the sun, to go down.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

borders

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Plural form of border (the edge, boundary, or limit of a country, region, garment, or object).

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

earth

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Sense 1: The world in distinction from heaven. Sense 2: Dry land, ground, soil, or dust. Sense 3: A land, region, or its inhabitants.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

made

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Formed, caused, prepared, appointed, or brought into a stated condition.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

summer

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Sense 1: The warm season of the year. Sense 2: Fruit ripening or gathered in that season, or a dwelling used in it. Sense 3: As a verb, to pass that season in a place.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

DEFINED WORDS

Psalms 74:18

COMBINED MEANING

remember

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1. To retain in mind or call back to mind; to recall. 2. To keep in mind with heed, observance, commemoration, or corresponding action. 3. To take account of a person, promise, deed, sin, or need and act with regard to it.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

people

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Persons collectively; a nation, community, or group considered as a body.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

blasphemed

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of blaspheme, meaning to speak evil, reproachfully, contemptuously, or cursedly against God, a person, or sacred things.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Cawdrey 1604

COMBINED MEANING

name

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Sense 1: A word, appellation, or designation by which a person or thing is called or known. Sense 2: The person or persons named or represented. Sense 3: Reputation, character, renown, or remembrance. Sense 4: The authority, behalf, or standing represented by a name. Sense 5: As a verb, to call, designate, or mention by name.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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13Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.

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14Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.

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15Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.

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16The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.

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17Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.

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18Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O Lord, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.

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