KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Psalms 90:3–4
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Psalms 90:3
3Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
3Thou turnest man to destruction: and sayest, Returne yee children of men.
Psalms 90:4
4For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
4*‖For a thousand yeeres in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past: and as a watch in the night.
- Or, when he hath passed them.
- 2.Pet.3.8.
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DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 90:3
To change direction, position, condition, purpose, or allegiance; to cause such a change.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
A human being; an adult male; a person, husband, servant, or representative, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
destruction
Ruin, overthrow, death, wasting, or the calamity and loss produced by destroying.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Say: speak, declare, tell, or express.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To go, come, send, or give back; to restore, answer, or turn again.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Sons or daughters; descendants; or persons likened to children by age, relation, or character.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Psalms 90:4
Periods of twelve months.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The act or power of seeing; something seen; a view, appearance, or presence, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
But; marking a contrast or qualification in the sentence.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The preceding day, or figuratively the former time immediately past.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Gone by, ended, or beyond a stated place, time, or limit.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
To stay awake, observe, guard, or keep vigil; also a guard duty or division of the night.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 3
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Open the full verse study19In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
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Open the full verse study7Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
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Open the full verse study14If he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath;
15All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.
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Open the full verse study35I the Lord have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
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Open the full verse study29Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.
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Open the full verse study4His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
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Open the full verse study6And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
7And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
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Open the full verse study10In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.
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Open the full verse study8But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
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Open the full verse study5Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
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Open the full verse study43But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
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Open the full verse study38And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.
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Open the full verse study25And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea.
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Open the full verse study24And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the Lord looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians,
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Open the full verse study19¶ So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands.
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