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Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
Read in context →And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
Read in context →3 occurrences in 3 verses.
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mḗpōs · may'-pos
lest somehow
Strong's KJV usage: :--lest (by any means, by some means, haply, perhaps).
Strong's first: 1 Corinthians 8:9Strong's last: 1 Thessalonians 3:5
Open full G3381 profile →pōs · poce
an interrogative particle of manner; in what way? (sometimes the question is indirect, how?); also as exclamation, how much!
Strong's KJV usage: :--how, after (by) what manner (means), that.
Strong's first: Luke 8:36Strong's last: Philippians 3:11
Open full G4459 profile →yâd · yawd
a hand (the open one [indicating power, means, direction, etc.], in distinction from 3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great variety of applications, both literally and figuratively, both proximate and remote [as follows]
Strong's KJV usage: ( be) able, × about, armholes, at, axletree, because of, beside, border, × bounty, broad, (broken-) handed, × by, charge, coast, consecrate, creditor, custody, debt, dominion, × enough, fellowship, force, × from, hand(-staves, -y work), × he, himself, × in, labour, large, ledge, (left-) handed, means, × mine, ministry, near, × of, × order, ordinance, × our, parts, pain, power, × presumptuously, service, side, sore, state, stay, draw with strength, stroke, swear, terror, × thee, × by them, × themselves, × thine own, × thou, through, × throwing, thumb, times, × to, × under, × us, × wait on, (way-) side, where, wide, × with (him, me, you), work, yield, × yourselves.
Strong's first: 1 Kings 10:29Strong's last: Malachi 1:9
Open full H3027 profile →eí pōs · i poce
if somehow
Strong's KJV usage: :--if by any means.
Strong's first: Acts 27:12Strong's last: Romans 1:10
Open full G1513 profile →mḗ · may
(adverb) not, (conjunction) lest; also (as an interrogative implying a negative answer (whereas G3756 expects an affirmative one)) whether
Strong's KJV usage: :--any but (that), X forbear, + God forbid, + lack, lest, neither, never, no (X wise in), none, nor, (can-)not, nothing, that not, un(-taken), without.
Strong's first: Matthew 5:26Strong's last: Luke 10:19
Open full G3361 profile →pántōs · pan'-toce
entirely; specially, at all events, (with negative, following) in no event
Strong's KJV usage: :--by all means, altogether, at all, needs, no doubt, in (no) wise, surely.
Strong's first: Acts 18:21Strong's last: 1 Corinthians 9:22
Open full G3843 profile →trópos · trop'-os
a turn, i.e. (by implication) mode or style (especially with preposition or relative prefix as adverb, like); figuratively, deportment or character
Strong's KJV usage: :--(even) as, conversation, (+ like) manner, (+ by any) means, way.
Strong's first: 2 Thessalonians 2:3Strong's last: 2 Thessalonians 3:16
Open full G5158 profile →nâqâh · naw-kaw'
to be (or make) clean (literally or figuratively); by implication (in an adverse sense) to be bare, i.e. extirpated
Strong's KJV usage: acquit × at all, × altogether, be blameless, cleanse, (be) clear(-ing), cut off, be desolate, be free, be (hold) guiltless, be (hold) innocent, × by no means, be quit, be (leave) unpunished, × utterly, × wholly.
Strong's first: Exodus 34:7Strong's last: Numbers 14:18
Open full H5352 profile →gínomai · ghin'-om-ahee
to cause to be ("gen"-erate), i.e. (reflexively) to become (come into being), used with great latitude (literal, figurative, intensive, etc.)
Strong's KJV usage: :--arise, be assembled, be(-come, -fall, -have self), be brought (to pass), (be) come (to pass), continue, be divided, draw, be ended, fall, be finished, follow, be found, be fulfilled, + God forbid, grow, happen, have, be kept, be made, be married, be ordained to be, partake, pass, be performed, be published, require, seem, be showed, X soon as it was, sound, be taken, be turned, use, wax, will, would, be wrought.
Strong's first: Hebrews 9:15Strong's last: Hebrews 9:15
Open full G1096 profile →tís · tis
an interrogative pronoun, who, which or what (in direct or indirect questions)
Strong's KJV usage: :--every man, how (much), + no(-ne, thing), what (manner, thing), where (-by, -fore, -of, -unto, - with, -withal), whether, which, who(-m, -se), why.
Strong's first: Acts 4:9Strong's last: Acts 4:9
Open full G5101 profile →machăshâbâh · makh-ash-aw-baw'
a contrivance, i.e. (concretely) a texture, machine, or (abstractly) intention, plan (whether bad, a plot; or good, advice)
Strong's KJV usage: cunning (work), curious work, device(-sed), imagination, invented, means, purpose, thought.
Strong's first: 2 Samuel 14:14Strong's last: 2 Samuel 14:14
Open full H4284 profile →pâdâh · paw-daw'
to sever, i.e. ransom; generally to release, preserve
Strong's KJV usage: × at all, deliver, × by any means, ransom, (that are to be, let be) redeem(-ed), rescue, × surely.
Strong's first: Psalms 49:7Strong's last: Psalms 49:7
Open full H6299 profile →pâqad · paw-kad'
to visit (with friendly or hostile intent); by analogy, to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit, etc.
Strong's KJV usage: appoint, × at all, avenge, bestow, (appoint to have the, give a) charge, commit, count, deliver to keep, be empty, enjoin, go see, hurt, do judgment, lack, lay up, look, make, × by any means, miss, number, officer, (make) overseer, have (the) oversight, punish, reckon, (call to) remember(-brance), set (over), sum, × surely, visit, want.
Strong's first: 1 Kings 20:39Strong's last: 1 Kings 20:39
Open full H6485 profile →qᵉbêl · keb-ale'
(adverbially) in front of; usually (with other particles) on account of, so as, since, hence
Strong's KJV usage: according to, as, because, before, for this cause, forasmuch as, by this means, over against, by reason of, that, therefore, though, wherefore.
Strong's first: Ezra 4:16Strong's last: Ezra 4:16
Open full H6903 profile →Strong's data is a concordance/lexical reference layer. Scripture context controls interpretation. Lexical source data is shown separately from future TWBC editorial teaching.
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Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.
Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.
And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver.
For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.
And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means.
And as the king passed by, he cried unto the king: and he said, Thy servant went out into the midst of the battle; and, behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man unto me, and said, Keep this man: if by any means he be missing, then shall thy life be for his life, or else thou shalt pay a talent of silver.
And they fetched up, and brought forth out of Egypt a chariot for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so brought they out horses for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, by their means.
We certify the king that, if this city be builded again, and the walls thereof set up, by this means thou shalt have no portion on this side the river.
None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:
For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
And now, I pray you, beseech God that he will be gracious unto us: this hath been by your means: will he regard your persons? saith the LORD of hosts.
Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.
And, behold, men brought in a bed a man which was taken with a palsy: and they sought means to bring him in, and to lay him before him.
They also which saw it told them by what means he that was possessed of the devils was healed.
Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
But by what means he now seeth, we know not; or who hath opened his eyes, we know not: he is of age; ask him: he shall speak for himself.
If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole;
But bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem: but I will return again unto you, if God will. And he sailed from Ephesus.
And because the haven was not commodious to winter in, the more part advised to depart thence also, if by any means they might attain to Phenice, and there to winter; which is an haven of Crete, and lieth toward the south west and north west.
Making request, if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you.
If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.
But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.
To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
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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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