Genesis 50:20
But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
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Meant
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Luke 18:36
And hearing the multitude pass by, he asked what it meant.
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2 occurrences in 2 verses.
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εἴην
eíēn · i'-ane
2 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: Luke 15:26Strong's last: Luke 18:36
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But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
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And he called one of the servants, and asked what these things meant.
G1498
And hearing the multitude pass by, he asked what it meant.
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meant
MEANT, preterit tense and participle passive of mean.
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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