1 Kings 8:27
But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?
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Contain
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1 Corinthians 7:9
But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
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כּוּל
kûwl · kool
3 times translated as this KJV form37 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to keep in; hence, to measure; figuratively, to maintain (in various senses)
Strong's KJV usage: (be able to, can) abide, bear, comprehend, contain, feed, forbearing, guide, hold(-ing in), nourish(-er), be present, make provision, receive, sustain, provide sustenance (victuals).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Kings 8:27Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 6:18
Open full H3557 profile →ἐγκρατεύομαι
enkrateúomai · eng-krat-yoo'-om-ahee
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
to exercise self-restraint (in diet and chastity)
Strong's KJV usage: :--can(-not) contain, be temperate.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Corinthians 7:9Strong's last: 1 Corinthians 7:9
Open full G1467 profile →χωρέω
chōréō · kho-reh'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form12 total Strong's occurrences
to be in (give) space, i.e. (intransitively) to pass, enter, or (transitively) to hold, admit (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--come, contain, go, have place, (can, be room to) receive.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: John 21:25Strong's last: John 21:25
Open full G5562 profile →בַּיִת
bayith · bah'-yith
1 times translated as this KJV form2,046 total Strong's occurrences
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
Strong's KJV usage: court, daughter, door, + dungeon, family, + forth of, × great as would contain, hangings, home(born), (winter) house(-hold), inside(-ward), palace, place, + prison, + steward, + tablet, temple, web, + within(-out).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Kings 18:32Strong's last: 1 Kings 18:32
Open full H1004 profile →נָשָׂא
nâsâʼ · naw-saw'
1 times translated as this KJV form647 total Strong's occurrences
to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absolute and relative
Strong's KJV usage: accept, advance, arise, (able to, (armor), suffer to) bear(-er, up), bring (forth), burn, carry (away), cast, contain, desire, ease, exact, exalt (self), extol, fetch, forgive, furnish, further, give, go on, help, high, hold up, honorable ( man), lade, lay, lift (self) up, lofty, marry, magnify, × needs, obtain, pardon, raise (up), receive, regard, respect, set (up), spare, stir up, swear, take (away, up), × utterly, wear, yield.
Strong's first: Ezekiel 45:11Strong's last: Ezekiel 45:11
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H3557
But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?
H1004
And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD: and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.
H3557
But who is able to build him an house, seeing the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who am I then, that I should build him an house, save only to burn sacrifice before him?
H3557
But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have built!
H5375
The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.
G5562
And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.
G1467
But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
English meaning and historical usage.
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contain
CONTAIN, verb transitive [Latin , to hold. See Tenet, Tenure.]
1. To hold, as a vessel; as, the vessel contains a gallon. Hence, to have capacity; to be able to hold; applied to an empty vessel.
2. To comprehend; to hold within specified limits.
Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee. 1 Kings 8:27.
3. To comprehend; to comprise. The history of Livy contains a hundred and forty books.
4. To hold within limits prescribed; to restrain; to withhold from trespass or disorder.
The Kings person contains the unruly people from evil occasions.
Fear not, my Lord, we can contain ourselves.
5. To include. This article is not contained in the account. This number does not contain the article specified.
6. To inclose; as, this cover or envelop contains a letter.
CONTAIN, verb intransitive To live in continence or chastity. Arbuthnot and Pope. 1 Corinthians 7:9.
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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