Genesis 18:1
And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;
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Jeremiah 52:8
But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.
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עֲרָבָה
ʻărâbâh · ar-aw-baw'
20 times translated as this KJV form61 total Strong's occurrences
a desert; especially (with the article prefix) the (generally) sterile valley of the Jordan and its continuation to the Red Sea
Strong's KJV usage: Arabah, champaign, desert, evening, heaven, plain, wilderness. See also 1026.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Numbers 22:1Strong's last: Jeremiah 52:8
Open full H6160 profile →אֵלוֹן
ʼêlôwn · ay-lone'
2 times translated as this KJV form9 total Strong's occurrences
an oak or other strong tree
Strong's KJV usage: plain. See also 356.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 18:1Strong's last: Deuteronomy 11:30
Open full H436 profile →שְׁפֵלָה
shᵉphêlâh · shef-ay-law'
2 times translated as this KJV form20 total Strong's occurrences
Lowland, i.e. (with the article) the maritime slope of Palestine
Strong's KJV usage: low country, (low) plain, vale(-ley).
Strong's first: 1 Chronicles 27:28Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 9:27
Open full H8219 profile →מִישׁוֹר
mîyshôwr · mee-shore'
1 times translated as this KJV form23 total Strong's occurrences
a level, i.e. a plain (often used (with the article prefix) as a proper name of certain districts); figuratively, concord; also straightness, i.e. (figuratively) justice (sometimes adverbially, justly)
Strong's KJV usage: equity, even place, plain, right(-eously), (made) straight, uprightness.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Chronicles 26:10Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 26:10
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H436
And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;
H6160
And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in the plains of Moab on this side Jordan by Jericho.
H6160
And Moses and Eleazar the priest spake with them in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,
H6160
These are they that were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.
H6160
And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, unto Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and unto the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by Jordan near Jericho.
H6160
And they departed from the mountains of Abarim, and pitched in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.
H6160
And they pitched by Jordan, from Bethjesimoth even unto Abelshittim in the plains of Moab.
H6160
And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,
H6160
And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,
H6160
These are the commandments and the judgments, which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses unto the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.
H436
Are they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the sun goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh?
H6160
And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the LORD shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan,
H6160
And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.
H6160
About forty thousand prepared for war passed over before the LORD unto battle, to the plains of Jericho.
H6160
And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho.
H6160
And to the kings that were on the north of the mountains, and of the plains south of Chinneroth, and in the valley, and in the borders of Dor on the west,
H6160
In the mountains, and in the valleys, and in the plains, and in the springs, and in the wilderness, and in the south country; the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites:
H6160
These are the countries which Moses did distribute for inheritance in the plains of Moab, on the other side Jordan, by Jericho, eastward.
H6160
Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, Lodge not this night in the plains of the wilderness, but speedily pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that are with him.
H6160
And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army were scattered from him.
H8219
And over the olive trees and the sycomore trees that were in the low plains was Baalhanan the Gederite: and over the cellars of oil was Joash:
H8219
And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in the low plains in abundance.
H4334
Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen also, and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry.
H6160
But the Chaldeans' army pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he gave judgment upon him.
H6160
But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.
English meaning and historical usage.
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plain
PLAIN, a. [L. planus; splendor. Gr. to wander.]
1. Smooth; even; level; flat; without elevations and depressions; not rough; as plain ground or land; a plain surface. In this sense, in philosophical writings, it is written plane.2. Open; clear. Our troops beat an army in plain fight and open field.3. Void of ornament; simple; as a plain dress. Plain without pomp, and rich without a show.4. Artless; simple; unlearned; without disguise, cunning or affectation; without refinement; as men of the plainer sort.Gen. 25.
Plain but pious christians--5. Artless; simple; unaffected; unembellished; as a plain tale or narration.6. Honestly undisguised; open; frank; sincere; unreserved. I will tell you the plain truth. Give me leave to be plain with you.7. Mere; bare; as a plain knave or fool.8. Evident to the understanding; clear; manifest; not obscure; as plain words or language; a plain difference; a plain argument. It is plain in the history, that Esau was never subject to Jacob.9. Not much varied by modulations; as a plain song or tune.10. Not high seasoned; not rich; not luxuriously dressed; as a plain diet.
11. Not ornamented with figures; as plain muslin.
12. Not dyed.
13. Not difficult; not embarrassing; as a plain case in law.
14. Easily seen or discovered; not obscure or difficult to be found; as a plain road or path. Our coarse is very plain. Ps.27.
A plain or plane figure, in geometry, is a uniform surface, from every point of whose perimeter right lines may be drawn to every other point in the same.
A plain figure, in geometry, is a surface in which, if any two points are taken, the straight line which joins them lies wholly in that surface.
A plain angle, is one contained under two lines or surfaces, in contradistinction to a solid angle.
PLAIN, adv. Not obscurely; in a manner to be easily understood.
1. Distinctly; articulately; as, to speak plain. Mark 7.2. With simplicity; artlessly; bluntly.PLAIN, n.
1. Level land; usually, an open field with an even surface, or a surface little varied by inequalities; as all the plain of Jordan. Gen.13.2. Field of battle.PLAIN, v.t. To level; to make plain or even on the surface.
PLAIN, v.i. [L. plango.] To lament or wail. [Not used.] [See Complain.]
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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