Job 12:25
They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.
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Stagger
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Isaiah 29:9
Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
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נוּעַ
nûwaʻ · noo'-ah
2 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: Psalms 107:27Strong's last: Isaiah 29:9
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tâʻâh · taw-aw'
1 times translated as this KJV form51 total Strong's occurrences
to vacillate, i.e. reel or stray (literally or figuratively); also causative of both
Strong's KJV usage: (cause to) go astray, deceive, dissemble, (cause to, make to) err, pant, seduce, (make to) stagger, (cause to) wander, be out of the way.
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Strong's first: Job 12:25Strong's last: Job 12:25
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They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.
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stagger
STAGGER, verb transitive
1. To reel; to vacillate; to move to one side and the other in standing or walking; not to stand or walk with steadiness.
Deep was the wound; he staggerd with the blow.
2. To fail; to cease to stand firm; to begin to give way.
The enemy staggers.
3. To hesitate; to begin to doubt and waver in purpose; to become less confident or determined.
Abraham staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief. Romans 4:20.
STAGGER, verb transitive
1. To cause to reel.
2. To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.
Whoever will read the story of this war, will find himself much staggered.
When a prince fails in honor and justice, it is enough to stagger his people in their allegiance.
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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