Judges 16:14
And she fastened it with the pin, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awaked out of his sleep, and went away with the pin of the beam, and with the web.
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Beam
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Luke 6:42
Either how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother's eye.
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δοκός
dokós · dok-os'
5 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
a stick of timber
Strong's KJV usage: :--beam.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 7:3Strong's last: Luke 6:42
Open full G1385 profile →מָנוֹר
mânôwr · maw-nore'
4 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
a yoke (properly, for plowing), i.e. the frame of a loom
Strong's KJV usage: beam.
Strong's first: 1 Samuel 17:7Strong's last: 1 Chronicles 20:5
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qôwrâh · ko-raw'
2 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
a rafter (forming trenches as it were); by implication, a roof
Strong's KJV usage: beam, roof.
Strong's first: 2 Kings 6:2Strong's last: 2 Kings 6:5
Open full H6982 profile →אֶרֶג
ʼereg · eh'-reg
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
a weaving; a braid; also a shuttle
Strong's KJV usage: beam, weaver's shuttle.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Judges 16:14Strong's last: Judges 16:14
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ʻâb · awb
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
an architrave (as shading the pillars)
Strong's KJV usage: thick (beam, plant).
Strong's first: 1 Kings 7:6Strong's last: 1 Kings 7:6
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And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
G1385
Either how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother's eye.
G1385
Either how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother's eye.
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beam
BEAM, noun [We see by the Gothic, that the word belongs to Class Bg. It properly signifies the stock or stem of a tree; that is, the fixed, firm part.]
1. The largest, or a principal piece in a building, that lies across the walls, and serves to support the principal rafters.
2. Any large piece of timber, long in proportion to its thickness, and squared, or hewed for use.
3. The part of a balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended; sometimes used for the whole apparatus for weighing.
4. The part on the head of a stag, which bears the antlers, royals and tops.
5. The pole of a carriage, which runs between the horses.
6. A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving; and this name is given also to the cylinder on which the cloth is rolled, as it is wove.
7. The straight part or shank of an anchor.
8. In ships, a great main cross timber, which holds the sides of a ship from falling together. The beams support the decks and orlops. The main beam is next the mainmast.
9. The main piece of a plow, in which the plow-tails are fixed, and by which it is drawn.
10. beam compass, an instrument consisting of a square wooden or brass beam having sliding sockets, that carry steel or pencil points; used for describing large circles, and in large projections for drawing the furniture on wall-dials.
On the beam in navigation, signified any distance from the ship, on a line with the beams, or at right angles with the keel.
Before the beam is an arch of the horizon between a line that crosses the ship at right angles, or the line of the beam and that point of the compass which she steers.
BEAM ends. A vessel is said to be on her beam ends, when she inclines so much on one side that her beams approach a vertical position.
BEAM-feathers, in falconry, the long feathers of a hawk's wing.
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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