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1 Chronicles 29

1 Chron. 29:15 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Forb we are strangers
ger (Hebrew #1616)
from 1481; properly, a guest; by implication, a foreigner
KJV usage: alien, sojourner, stranger.
Pronounce: gare
Origin: or (fully) geyr (gare)
before
paniym (Hebrew #6440)
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition (before, etc.)
KJV usage: + accept, a-(be- )fore(-time), against, anger, X as (long as), at, + battle, + because (of), + beseech, countenance, edge, + employ, endure, + enquire, face, favour, fear of, for, forefront(-part), form(-er time, -ward), from, front, heaviness, X him(-self), + honourable, + impudent, + in, it, look(-eth) (- s), X me, + meet, X more than, mouth, of, off, (of) old (time), X on, open, + out of, over against, the partial, person, + please, presence, propect, was purposed, by reason of, + regard, right forth, + serve, X shewbread, sight, state, straight, + street, X thee, X them(-selves), through (+ - out), till, time(-s) past, (un-)to(-ward), + upon, upside (+ down), with(- in, + -stand), X ye, X you.
Pronounce: paw-neem'
Origin: plural (but always as singular) of an unused noun (paneh {paw-neh'}; from 6437)
thee, and sojourners
towshab (Hebrew #8453)
from 3427; a dweller (but not outlandish (5237)); especially (as distinguished from a native citizen (active participle of 3427) and a temporary inmate (1616) or mere lodger (3885)) resident alien
KJV usage: foreigner, inhabitant, sojourner, stranger.
Pronounce: to-shawb'
Origin: or toshab (1 Kings 17:1) {to-shawb'}
, as were all our fathers
'ab (Hebrew #1)
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application)
KJV usage: chief, (fore-)father(-less), X patrimony, principal. Compare names in "Abi-".
Pronounce: awb
Origin: a primitive word
: ourc days
yowm (Hebrew #3117)
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
KJV usage: age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.
Pronounce: yome
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be hot
on the earth
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
are as a shadow
tsel (Hebrew #6738)
shade, whether literal or figurative
KJV usage: defence, shade(-ow).
Pronounce: tsale
Origin: from 6751
, and there is none δabiding
miqveh (Hebrew #4723)
or miqvet (2 Chron. 1:16) {mik-vay'}; from 6960; something waited for, i.e. confidence (objective or subjective); also a collection, i.e. (of water) a pond, or (of men and horses) a caravan or drove
KJV usage: abiding, gathering together, hope, linen yarn, plenty (of water), pool.
Pronounce: mik-veh'
Origin: or miqveh (1 Kings 10:28) {mik-vay'}
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Psa. 39:12• 12Hear my prayer, Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry; be not silent at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, a sojourner, like all my fathers. (Psa. 39:12)
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Heb. 11:13• 13All these died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them from afar off and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and sojourners on the earth. (Heb. 11:13)
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1 Peter 2:11• 11Beloved, I exhort you, as strangers and sojourners, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; (1 Peter 2:11)
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Job 14:2• 2He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down; and he fleeth as a shadow, and continueth not. (Job 14:2)
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Psa. 90:9• 9For all our days pass away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a passing thought. (Psa. 90:9)
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Psa. 102:11• 11My days are like a lengthened-out shadow, and I, I am withered like grass. (Psa. 102:11)
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Psa. 144:4• 4Man is like to vanity; his days are as a shadow that passeth away. (Psa. 144:4)
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Isa. 40:6‑8• 6A voice saith, Cry. And he saith, What shall I cry?--All flesh is grass, and all the comeliness thereof as the flower of the field.
 7The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, for the breath of Jehovah bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.
 8The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God abideth for ever. (Isa. 40:6‑8)
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James 4:14• 14ye who do not know what will be on the morrow, ( for what is your life? It is even a vapour, appearing for a little while, and then disappearing,) (James 4:14)
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expectation.

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Cross References

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Gen. 47:9• 9And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my sojourning are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they do not attain to the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their sojourning. (Gen. 47:9)
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Psa. 39:12• 12Hear my prayer, Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry; be not silent at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, a sojourner, like all my fathers. (Psa. 39:12)
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Psa. 119:19• 19I am a stranger in the land; hide not thy commandments from me. (Psa. 119:19)
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Heb. 11:13‑16• 13All these died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them from afar off and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and sojourners on the earth.
 14For they who say such things shew clearly that they seek their country.
 15And if they had called to mind that from whence they went out, they had had opportunity to have returned;
 16but now they seek a better, that is, a heavenly; wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God; for he has prepared for them a city. (Heb. 11:13‑16)
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1 Peter 2:11• 11Beloved, I exhort you, as strangers and sojourners, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; (1 Peter 2:11)
our days.
Job 14:2• 2He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down; and he fleeth as a shadow, and continueth not. (Job 14:2)
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Psa. 90:9• 9For all our days pass away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a passing thought. (Psa. 90:9)
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Psa. 102:11• 11My days are like a lengthened-out shadow, and I, I am withered like grass. (Psa. 102:11)
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Psa. 144:4• 4Man is like to vanity; his days are as a shadow that passeth away. (Psa. 144:4)
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Eccl. 6:12• 12For who knoweth what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell man what shall be after him under the sun? (Eccl. 6:12)
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Isa. 40:6‑8• 6A voice saith, Cry. And he saith, What shall I cry?--All flesh is grass, and all the comeliness thereof as the flower of the field.
 7The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, for the breath of Jehovah bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.
 8The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God abideth for ever. (Isa. 40:6‑8)
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James 4:14• 14ye who do not know what will be on the morrow, ( for what is your life? It is even a vapour, appearing for a little while, and then disappearing,) (James 4:14)
abiding.
Heb. expectation.

J. N. Darby Translation

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For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no hope of life.