2 Samuel 6:22
And I will yet be more vile than thus, and will be base in mine own sight: and of the maidservants which thou hast spoken of, of them shall I be had in honour.
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2 Corinthians 10:1
Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you:
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9 occurrences in 7 verses.
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מְכוֹנָה
mᵉkôwnâh · mek-o-naw'
7 times translated as this KJV form23 total Strong's occurrences
a pedestal, also a spot
Strong's KJV usage: base.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Kings 7:27Strong's last: 1 Kings 7:35
Open full H4350 profile →שָׁפָל
shâphâl · shaw-fawl'
4 times translated as this KJV form19 total Strong's occurrences
depressed, literally or figuratively
Strong's KJV usage: base(-st), humble, low(-er, -ly).
Strong's first: 2 Samuel 6:22Strong's last: Malachi 2:9
Open full H8217 profile →כֵּן
kên · kane
2 times translated as this KJV form17 total Strong's occurrences
a stand, i.e. pedestal or station
Strong's KJV usage: base, estate, foot, office, place, well.
Strong's first: 1 Kings 7:29Strong's last: 1 Kings 7:31
Open full H3653 profile →ταπεινός
tapeinós · tap-i-nos'
1 times translated as this KJV form8 total Strong's occurrences
depressed, i.e. (figuratively) humiliated (in circumstances or disposition)
Strong's KJV usage: :--base, cast down, humble, of low degree (estate), lowly.
Strong's first: 2 Corinthians 10:1Strong's last: 2 Corinthians 10:1
Open full G5011 profile →מְכֻנָה
mᵉkunâh · mek-oo-naw'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
a spot
Strong's KJV usage: base.
Strong's first: Zechariah 5:11Strong's last: Zechariah 5:11
Open full H4369 profile →קָלָה
qâlâh · kaw-law'
1 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
to be light (as implied in rapid motion), but figuratively, only (be [causatively, hold] in contempt)
Strong's KJV usage: base, contemn, despise, lightly esteem, set light, seem vile.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Isaiah 3:5Strong's last: Isaiah 3:5
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H8217
And I will yet be more vile than thus, and will be base in mine own sight: and of the maidservants which thou hast spoken of, of them shall I be had in honour.
H4350
And he made ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits the height of it.
H3653
And on the borders that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubims: and upon the ledges there was a base above: and beneath the lions and oxen were certain additions made of thin work.
H4350
And every base had four brasen wheels, and plates of brass: and the four corners thereof had undersetters: under the laver were undersetters molten, at the side of every addition.
H3653
And the mouth of it within the chapiter and above was a cubit: but the mouth thereof was round after the work of the base, a cubit and an half: and also upon the mouth of it were gravings with their borders, foursquare, not round.
H4350
And under the borders were four wheels; and the axletrees of the wheels were joined to the base: and the height of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit.
H4350
And there were four undersetters to the four corners of one base: and the undersetters were of the very base itself.
H4350
And there were four undersetters to the four corners of one base: and the undersetters were of the very base itself.
H4350
And in the top of the base was there a round compass of half a cubit high: and on the top of the base the ledges thereof and the borders thereof were of the same.
H4350
And in the top of the base was there a round compass of half a cubit high: and on the top of the base the ledges thereof and the borders thereof were of the same.
no direct Strong's tag
They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
H7034
And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.
H8217
That the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping of his covenant it might stand.
H8217
And I will bring again the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their habitation; and they shall be there a base kingdom.
H4369
And he said unto me, To build it an house in the land of Shinar: and it shall be established, and set there upon her own base.
H8217
Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.
no direct Strong's tag
And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:
G5011
Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you:
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base
BASE, adjective
1. Low in place. obsolete
2. Mean; vile; worthless; that is, low in value or estimation; used of things.
3. Of low station; of mean account; without rank, dignity or estimation among men; used of persons.
The base shall behave proudly against the honorable. Isaiah 3:5.
4. Of mean spirit; disingenuous; illiberal; low; without dignity of sentiment; as a base and abject multitude.
5. Of little comparative value; applied to metals, and perhaps to all metals, except gold and silver.
6. Deep; grave; applied to sounds; as the base sounds of a viol.
7. Of illegitimate birth; born out of wedlock.
8. Not held by honorable tenure. A base estate is an estate held by services not honorable, not in capite, or by villenage. Such a tenure is called base or low, and the tenant, a base tenant. So writers on the laws of England use the terms, a base fee, a base court.
Such a tenure is called base or low, and the tenant, a base tenant. So writers on the laws of England use the terms, a base fee, a base court.
BASE, noun [Latin basis; that which is set, the foundation or bottom.]
1. The bottom of any thing, considered as its support or the part of a thing on which it stands or rests; as the base of a column, the pedestal of a statue, the foundation of a house, etc.
In architecture, the base of a pillar properly is that part which is between the top of a pedestal and the bottom of the shaft; but when there is no pedestal, it is the part between the bottom of the column and the plinth. Usually it consists of certain spires or circles. The pedestal also has its base
2. In fortification, the exterior side of the polygon, or that imaginary line which is drawn from the flanked angle of a bastion to the angle opposite to it.
3. In gunnery, the least sort of ordnance, the diameter of whose bore is l 1/4 inch.
4. The part of any ornament which hangs down, as housings.
5. The broad part of any thing, as the bottom of a cone.
6. In old authors, stockings; armor for the legs.
7. The place from which racers or tilters start; the bottom of the field; the carcer or starting post.
8. The lowest or gravest part in music; improperly written bass.
9. A rustic play, called also bays, or prison bars.
10. In geometry, the lowest side of the perimeter of a figure. Any side of a triangle may be called its base but this term most properly belongs to the side which is parallel to the horizon. In rectangled triangles, the base properly, is the side opposite to the right angle. The base of a solid figure is that on which it stands. The base of a conic section is a right line in the hyperbola and parabola, arising from the common intersection of the secant plane and the base of the cone.
11. In chimistry, any body which is dissolved by another body, which it receives and fixes. Thus any alkaline, earthy or metallic substance, combining with an acid, forms a compound or neutral salt, of which it is the base Such salts are called salts with alkaline, earthy or metallic bases.
12. Thorough base in music, is the part performed with base viols or theorbos, while the voices sing and other instruments perform their parts, or during the intervals when the other parts stop. It is distinguished by figures over the notes.
Counter base is a second or double base when there are several in the same concert.
BASE, verb transitive To embase; to reduce the value by the admixture of meaner metals. [Little used.]
2. To found; to lay the base or foundation.
To base and build the commonwealth of man.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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