Psalms 16:5
The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.
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The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.
Read in context →The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.
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tâmak · taw-mak'
to sustain; by implication, to obtain, keep fast; figuratively, to help, follow close
Strong's KJV usage: (take, up-) hold (up), maintain, retain, stay (up).
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The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.
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MAINTA'IN, verb transitive [Latin manus and teneo.]
1. To hold, preserve or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace; to maintain the digestive process or powers of the stomach; to maintain the fertility of soil; to maintain present character or reputation.
2. To hold; to keep; not to lose or surrender; as, to maintain a place or post.
3. To continue; not to suffer to cease; as, to maintain a conversation.
4. To keep up; to uphold; to support the expense of; as, to maintain state or equipage.
What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
5. To support with food, clothing and other conveniences; as, to maintain a family by trade or labor.
6. To support by intellectual powers, or by force of reason; as, to maintain an argument.
7. To support; to defend; to vindicate; to justify; to prove to be just; as, to maintain one's right or cause.
8. To support by assertion or argument; to affirm.
In tragedy and satire, I maintain that this age and the last have excelled the ancients.
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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