Isaiah 30:28
And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.
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Sift
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Luke 22:31
And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat:
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σινιάζω
siniázō · sin-ee-ad'-zo
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
to riddle (figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--sift.
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Strong's first: Luke 22:31Strong's last: Luke 22:31
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nûwaʻ · noo'-ah
1 times translated as this KJV form40 total Strong's occurrences
to waver, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively (as subjoined)
Strong's KJV usage: continually, fugitive, × make, to (go) up and down, be gone away, (be) move(-able, -d), be promoted, reel, remove, scatter, set, shake, sift, stagger, to and fro, be vagabond, wag, (make) wander (up and down).
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Strong's first: Amos 9:9Strong's last: Amos 9:9
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nûwph · noof
1 times translated as this KJV form37 total Strong's occurrences
to quiver (i.e. vibrate up and down, or rock to and fro); used in a great variety of applications (including sprinkling, beckoning, rubbing, bastinadoing, sawing, waving, etc.)
Strong's KJV usage: lift up, move, offer, perfume, send, shake, sift, strike, wave.
Strong's first: Isaiah 30:28Strong's last: Isaiah 30:28
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H5130
And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.
H5128
For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.
G4617
And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat:
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sift
SIFT, verb transitive
1. To separate by a sieve, as the fine part of a substance from the coarse; as, to sift meal; to sift powder; to sift sand or lime.
2. To separate; to part.
3. To examine minutely or critically; to scrutinize. Let the principles of the party be thoroughly sifted. We have sifted your objections.
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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