Genesis 21:29
And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?
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2 Corinthians 8:13
For I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened:
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ἄσημος
ásēmos · as'-ay-mos
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
unmarked, i.e. (figuratively) ignoble
Strong's KJV usage: :--mean.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Acts 21:39Strong's last: Acts 21:39
Open full G767 profile →εἴην
eíēn · i'-ane
1 times translated as this KJV form12 total Strong's occurrences
might (could, would, or should) be
Strong's KJV usage: :--mean, + perish, should be, was, were.
Strong's first: Acts 10:17Strong's last: Acts 10:17
Open full G1498 profile →ἐστί
estí · es-tee'
1 times translated as this KJV form917 total Strong's occurrences
he (she or it) is; also (with neuter plural) they are
Strong's KJV usage: :--are, be(-long), call, X can(-not), come, consisteth, X dure for a while, + follow, X have, (that) is (to say), make, meaneth, X must needs, + profit, + remaineth, + wrestle.
Strong's first: Mark 9:10Strong's last: Mark 9:10
Open full G2076 profile →θέλω
thélō · thel'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form217 total Strong's occurrences
to determine (as an active option from subjective impulse; whereas G1014 properly denotes rather a passive acquiescence in objective considerations), i.e. choose or prefer (literally or figuratively); by implication, to wish, i.e. be inclined to (sometimes adverbially, gladly); impersonally for the future tense, to be about to; by Hebraism, to delight in
Strong's KJV usage: :--desire, be disposed (forward), intend, list, love, mean, please, have rather, (be) will (have, -ling, - ling(-ly)).
Strong's first: Acts 17:20Strong's last: Acts 17:20
Open full G2309 profile →חָשֹׁךְ
châshôk · khaw-shoke'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
dark (figuratively, i.e. obscure)
Strong's KJV usage: meaning
Strong's first: Proverbs 22:29Strong's last: Proverbs 22:29
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Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what these things mean? tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon is come to Jerusalem, and hath taken the king thereof, and the princes thereof, and led them with him to Babylon;
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What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge?
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mean
MEAN, adjective [Latin communis, vulgus, minor and minuo.]
1. Wanting dignity; low in rank or birth; as a man of mean parentage, mean birth or origin.
2. Wanting dignity of mind; low minded; base; destitute of honor; spiritless.
Can you imagine I so mean could prove,
To save my life by changing of my love?
3. Contemptible; despicable.
The Roman legions and great Caesar found
Our fathers no mean foes.
4. Of little value; low in worth or estimation; worthy of little or no regard.
We fast, not to please men, nor to promote any mean worldly interest.
5. Of little value; humble; poor; as a mean abode; a mean dress.
MEAN, adjective [Latin medium, medius.]
1. Middle; at an equal distance from the extremes; as the means distance; the mean proportion between quantities; the mean ratio.
According to the fittest style of lofty, mean or lowly.
2. Intervening; intermediate; coming between; as in the mean time or while.
MEAN, noun The middle point or place; the middle rate or degree; mediocrity; medium. Observe the golden mean
There is a mean in all things.
But no authority of gods or men
Allow of any mean in poesy.
1. Intervening time; interval of time; interim; meantime.
And in the mean vouchsafe her honorable tomb.
Here is an omission of time or while.
2. Measure; regulation. [Not in use.]
3. Instrument; that which is used to effect an object; the medium through which something is done.
The virtuous conversation of christians was a mean to work the conversion of the heathen to Christ.
In this sense, means, in the plural, is generally used, and often with a definitive and verb in the singular.
By this means he had them more at vantage.
A good character, when established, should not be rested on as an end, but employed as a means of doing good.
4. Means, in the plural, income, revenue, resources, substance or estate, considered as the instrument of effecting any purpose. He would have built a house, but he wanted means.
Your means are slender.
5. Instrument of action or performance.
By all means, without fail. Go, by all means.
By no means, not at all; certainly not; not in any degree.
The wine on this side of the lake is by no means so good as that on the other.
By no manner of means, by no means; not the least.
By any means, possibly; at all.
If by any means I might attain to the resurrection of the dead. Philippians 3:11.
MEANtime
MEANwhile, in the intervening time. [In this use of these words there is an omission of in or in the; in the meantime.]
MEAN, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive meant; pronounced ment. [Latin mens; Eng.mind; Latin intendo, propono.]
1. To have in the mind, view or contemplation; to intend.
What mean you by this service? Exodus 12:26.
2. To intend; to purpose; to design, with reference to a future act.
Ye thought evil against me, but God meant it for good. Genesis 1:1.
3. To signify; to indicate.
What mean these seven ewe lambs? Genesis 21:29.
What meaneth the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews? 1 Samuel 4:6.
Go ye, and learn what that meaneth-- Matthew 9:13.
MEAN, verb intransitive To have thought or ideas; or to have meaning.
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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