Job 3:23
Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
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Hedged
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Matthew 21:33
Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:
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φραγμός
phragmós · frag-mos'
1 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
a fence, or inclosing barrier (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--hedge (+ round about), partition.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 21:33Strong's last: Matthew 21:33
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gâdar · gaw-dar'
1 times translated as this KJV form10 total Strong's occurrences
to wall in or around
Strong's KJV usage: close up, fence up, hedge, inclose, make up (a wall), mason, repairer.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Lamentations 3:7Strong's last: Lamentations 3:7
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Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
H1443
He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
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Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:
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hedge
HEDGE, noun hej. [Eng. haw] Properly, a thicket of thorn-bushes or other shrubs or small trees; but appropriately, such a thicket planted round a field to fence it, or in rows, to separate the parts of a garden.
HEDGE, prefixed to another word, or in composition, denotes something mean, as a hedge-priest, a hedge-press, a hedge-vicar, that is, born in or belonging to the hedges or woods, low, outlandish. [Not used in American.]
HEDGE, verb transitive hej. To inclose with a hedge; to fence with a thicket of shrubs or small trees; to separate by a hedge; as, to hedge a field or garden.
1. To obstruct with a hedge or to obstruct in any manner.
I will hedge up thy way with thorns. Hosea 2.
2. To surround for defense; to fortify.
England hedged in with the main.
3. To inclose for preventing escape.
That is a law to hedge in the cuckow.
Dryden, Swift and Shakespeare have written hedge for edge, to edge in, but improperly.
HEDGE, verb intransitive hej. To hide, as in a hedge; to hide; to skulk.
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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