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James 1:8 KJV (With Strong’s)

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A double minded
dipsuchos (Greek #1374)
two-spirited, i.e. vacillating (in opinion or purpose)
KJV usage: double minded.
Pronounce: dip'-soo-khos
Origin: from 1364 and 5590
man
aner (Greek #435)
a man (properly as an individual male)
KJV usage: fellow, husband, man, sir.
Pronounce: an'-ayr
Origin: a primary word (compare 444)
is unstable
akatastatos (Greek #182)
inconstant
KJV usage: unstable.
Pronounce: ak-at-as'-tat-os
Origin: from 1 (as a negative particle) and a derivative of 2525
in
en (Greek #1722)
"in," at, (up-)on, by, etc.
KJV usage: about, after, against, + almost, X altogether, among, X as, at, before, between, (here-)by (+ all means), for (... sake of), + give self wholly to, (here-)in(-to, -wardly), X mightily, (because) of, (up-)on, (open-)ly, X outwardly, one, X quickly, X shortly, (speedi-)ly, X that, X there(-in, -on), through(-out), (un-)to(-ward), under, when, where(-with), while, with(-in). Often used in compounds, with substantially the same import; rarely with verbs of motion, and then not to indicate direction, except (elliptically) by a separate (and different) preposition.
Pronounce: en
Origin: a primary preposition denoting (fixed) position (in place, time or state), and (by implication) instrumentality (medially or constructively), i.e. a relation of rest (intermediate between 1519 and 1537)
all
pas (Greek #3956)
apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole
KJV usage: all (manner of, means), alway(-s), any (one), X daily, + ever, every (one, way), as many as, + no(-thing), X thoroughly, whatsoever, whole, whosoever.
Pronounce: pas
Origin: including all the forms of declension
his
autos (Greek #846)
the reflexive pronoun self, used (alone or in the comparative 1438) of the third person , and (with the proper personal pronoun) of the other persons
KJV usage: her, it(-self), one, the other, (mine) own, said, (self-), the) same, ((him-, my-, thy- )self, (your-)selves, she, that, their(-s), them(-selves), there(-at, - by, -in, -into, -of, -on, -with), they, (these) things, this (man), those, together, very, which. Compare 848.
Pronounce: ow-tos'
Origin: from the particle αὖ (perhaps akin to the base of 109 through the idea of a baffling wind) (backward)
ways
ho (Greek #3588)
the definite article; the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)
KJV usage: the, this, that, one, he, she, it, etc.
Pronounce: ho
Origin: ἡ (hay), and the neuter τό (to) in all their inflections
hodos (Greek #3598)
a road; by implication, a progress (the route, act or distance); figuratively, a mode or means
KJV usage: journey, (high-)way.
Pronounce: hod-os'
Origin: apparently a primary word
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Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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James 4:8• 8Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse hands, sinners, and purify hearts, ye double-minded. (James 4:8)
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1 Kings 18:21•  (1 Kings 18:21)
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2 Kings 17:33,41•  (2 Kings 17:33,41)
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Isa. 29:13•  (Isa. 29:13)
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Hos. 7:8‑11•  (Hos. 7:8‑11)
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Hos. 10:2•  (Hos. 10:2)
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Matt. 6:22,24• 22The lamp of the body is the eye; if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body will be light;
 24{i}No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and will love the other, or he will hold to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.{/i} (Matt. 6:22,24)
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2 Peter 2:14• 14having eyes full of an adulteress and without cessation from sin; setting baits for unstable souls; having a heart practiced in covetousness, children of curse; (2 Peter 2:14)
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2 Peter 3:16• 16as also in all [his] epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which [epistles] some things are hard to understand, which the untaught and unestablished wrest, as also the rest of the scriptures, to their own destruction. (2 Peter 3:16)
• Otherwise, the heart is double; there is dependence elsewhere than on God; our desires have another object. (“James 1” by J.N. Darby)

J. N. Darby Translation

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he is a double-minded mana, unstable in all his ways.

JND Translation Notes

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"Double-minded man" is an apposition, not with "that man," but with "he that doubts" (ver. 6); and ver. 7 is practically a parenthesis. I do not think the sense of ver. 8 bears a direct connection with ver. 7; it is rather a moral explanation of the figure of ver. 6. The style of James is characterized by these proverbial sentences. see ver. 20 as an example.

W. Kelly Translation

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a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.