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Psalms 78:18
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Psalms 78:18
18And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
18And they tempted God in their heart: by asking meat for their lust.
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Psalms 78:18
Enticed toward evil, put to the test, tried, or provoked, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A deity or object of worship; when referring to the LORD, the one true God.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The bodily organ; more often in Scripture, the inward person—the mind, will, affections, conscience, or moral character—according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Silently expressing request or desire; Requesting; petitioning; interrogating; inquiring.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Strong desire; especially sinful or fleshly desire.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study4¶ And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?
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Open the full verse study16¶ Ye shall not tempt the Lord your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.
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Open the full verse study9Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
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Open the full verse study14But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.
15And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul.
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Open the full verse study6Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
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Open the full verse study2And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:
3And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
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Open the full verse study2Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
3Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
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Open the full verse study9When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
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