Job 37:3
He directeth it under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto the ends of the earth.
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Directeth
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Proverbs 21:29
A wicked man hardeneth his face: but as for the upright, he directeth his way.
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בִּין
bîyn · bene
1 times translated as this KJV form169 total Strong's occurrences
to separate mentally (or distinguish), i.e.(generally) understand
Strong's KJV usage: attend, consider, be cunning, diligently, direct, discern, eloquent, feel, inform, instruct, have intelligence, know, look well to, mark, perceive, be prudent, regard, (can) skill(-full), teach, think, (cause, make to, get, give, have) understand(-ing), view, (deal) wise(-ly, man).
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Strong's first: Proverbs 21:29Strong's last: Proverbs 21:29
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yâshar · yaw-shar'
1 times translated as this KJV form28 total Strong's occurrences
to be straight or even; figuratively, to be (causatively, to make) right, pleasant, prosperous
Strong's KJV usage: direct, fit, seem good (meet), please (will), be (esteem, go) right (on), bring (look, make, take the) straight (way), be upright(-ly).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 37:3Strong's last: Job 37:3
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kûwn · koon
1 times translated as this KJV form219 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to be erect (i.e. stand perpendicular); hence (causatively) to set up, in a great variety of applications, whether literal (establish, fix, prepare, apply), or figurative (appoint, render sure, proper or prosperous)
Strong's KJV usage: certain(-ty), confirm, direct, faithfulness, fashion, fasten, firm, be fitted, be fixed, frame, be meet, ordain, order, perfect, (make) preparation, prepare (self), provide, make provision, (be, make) ready, right, set (aright, fast, forth), be stable, (e-) stablish, stand, tarry, × very deed.
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Strong's first: Proverbs 16:9Strong's last: Proverbs 16:9
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He directeth it under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto the ends of the earth.
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direct
DIRECT, adjective [Latin , to make straight. See Right.]
1. Straight; right; as, to pass in a direct line from one body or place to another. It is opposed to crooked, winding, oblique. It is also opposed to refracted; as a direct ray of light.
2. In astronomy, appearing to move forward in the zodiac, in the direction of the sign; opposed to retrograde; as, the motion of a planet is direct
3. In the line of father and sons; opposed to collateral; as a descendant in the direct line.
4. Leading or tending to an end, as by a straight line or course; not circuitous. Thus we speak of direct means to effect an object; a direct course; a direct way.
5. Open; not ambiguous or doubtful.
6. Plain; express; not ambiguous; as, he said this in direct words; he made a direct acknowledgment.
7. In music, a direct interval is that which forms any kind of harmony on the fundamental sound which produces it; as the fifth, major third and octave.
DIRECT tax, is a tax assess on real estate, as houses and lands.
DIRECT, verb transitive [Latin]
1. To point or aim in a straight line, towards a place or object; as, to direct an arrow or a piece of ordnance; to direct the eye; to direct a course or flight.
2. To point; to show the right road or course; as, he directed me to the left hand road.
3. To regulate; to guide or lead; to govern; to cause to proceed in a particular manner; as, to direct the affairs of a nation.
Wisdom is profitable to direct Ecclesiastes 10:10.
4. To prescribe a course; to mark out a way. Job 37:3.
5. To order; to instruct; to point out a course of proceeding, with authority; to command. But direct is a softer term than command.
DIRECT, noun In music, a character placed at the end of a stave to direct the performer to the first note of the next stave.
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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