Matthew 6:19
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
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Rust
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James 5:3
Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
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βρῶσις
brōsis · bro'-sis
2 times translated as this KJV form11 total Strong's occurrences
(abstractly) eating (literally or figuratively); by extension (concretely) food (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--eating, food, meat.
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Strong's first: Matthew 6:19Strong's last: Matthew 6:20
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iós · ee-os'
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
rust (as if emitted by metals); also venom (as emitted by serpents)
Strong's KJV usage: :--poison, rust.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: James 5:3Strong's last: James 5:3
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Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
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But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
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Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
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rust
RUST, noun [Gr. probably from its color, and allied to ruddy, red, as Latin rubigo is from rubeo. See Ruddy.]
1. The oxyd of a metal; a substance composed of oxygen combined with a metal, and forming a rough coat on its surface. All metals except gold are liable to rust
2. Loss of power by inactivity, as metals lose their brightness and smoothness when not used.
3. Any foul matter contracted; as rust on corn or salted meat.
4. Foul extraneous matter; as sacred truths cleared from the rust of human mixtures.
5. A disease in grain, a kind of dust which gathers on the stalks and leaves.
RUST, verb intransitive
1. To contract rust; to be oxydized and contract a roughness on the surface.
Our armors now may rust
2. To degenerate in idleness; to become dull by inaction.
Must I rust in Egypt?
3. To gather dust or extraneous matter.
RUST, verb transitive
1. To cause to contract rust
Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them.
2. To impair by time and inactivity.
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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