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22 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1915 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Judges 5:20ISBE
They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.
- 1 Chronicles 27:1–15ISBE
Now the children of Israel after their number, to wit, the chief fathers and captains of thousands and hundreds, and their officers that served the king in any matter of the courses, which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of…
- 1 Chronicles 28:1ISBE
And David assembled all the princes of Israel, the princes of the tribes, and the captains of the companies that ministered to the king by course, and the captains over the thousands, and captains over the hundreds, and the stewards over all the substance…
- 2 Chronicles 5:11ISBE
¶ And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place: (for all the priests that were present were sanctified, and did not then wait by course:
- Ezra 3:11ISBE
And they sang together by course in praising and giving thanks unto the LORD; because he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever toward Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised the LORD, because the foundation of the house…
- Psalms 82:5ISBE
They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.
- Isaiah 44:4ISBE
And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses.
- Jeremiah 8:6ISBE
I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle.
- Jeremiah 23:10ISBE
For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right.
- 1 Esdras 4:34ISBE
O ye men, are not women strong? great is the earth, high is the heaven, swift is the sun in his course, for he compasseth the heavens round about, and fetcheth his course again to his own place in one day.
- Luke 1:5ISBE
¶ There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judæa, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.
- Luke 1:8ISBE
And it came to pass, that while he executed the priest’s office before God in the order of his course,
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- Acts 13:25 ISBE
- Acts 16:11 ISBE
- Acts 20:24 ISBE
- Acts 21:1 ISBE
- Acts 21:7 ISBE
- 1 Corinthians 14:27 ISBE
- Ephesians 2:2 ISBE
- 2 Thessalonians 3:1 ISBE
- 2 Timothy 4:7 ISBE
- James 3:6 ISBE
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 22 references
kors (from Latin cursus, "a running," "race," "voyage," "way"):
(1) euthudromeo, "forward or onward movement," as of a ship: "We made a straight course" (Ac 16:11; compare Ac 21:1); "We had finished our course." (the Revised Version (British and American) "voyage," Ac 21:7).
(2) A (prescribed or self-appointed) path, as of the sun: "Swift is the sun in his course" (1 Esdras 4:34); of the stars: "The stars in their courses fought against Sisera" (Jud 5:20 the King James Version) (see ASTRONOMY; ASTROLOGY); of a river (or irrigating canal?): "as willows by the watercourses" (Isa 44:4); of a race (techo "that the word of the Lord may have free course.") (the Revised Version (British and American) "may run") (2Th 3:1).
(3) A career in such a course (dromos): "I have finished my (the Revised Version (British and American) "the") course" (2Ti 4:7); "as John fulfilled (the Revised Version (British and American) "was fulfilling") his course" (Ac 13:25); "that I might finish (the Revised Version (British and American) "may accomplish") my course" (Ac 20:24).
(4) A way or manner, as of life: "Every one turned to his course" (Jer 8:6); "their course is evil" (Jer 23:10); "walked according to the course aion, the Revised Version, [margin "age"] of this world" (Eph 2:2).
(5) Orderly succession: "sang together by course" (the American Standard Revised Version "sang one to another") (Ezr 3:11); "by course" (the Revised Version (British and American) "in turn") (1Co 14:27); the courses of the priests and Levites (1Ch 27:1-15; 1Ch 28:1; 2Ch 5:11; Lu 1:5,8).
See PRIESTS AND LEVITES.
(6) A row or layer, as of masonry: "All the foundations of the earth are out of count" (the Revised Version (British and American) "are moved"; the American Standard Revised Version "are shaken") (Ps 82:5).
(7) (The tongue) "setteth on fire the course (the Revised Version (British and American) "wheel") of nature" (Jas 3:6). The cycle of generation (ton trochon tes geneseos) here means the physical world as constituted by the round of origin and decay, and typified by the Orphic (legendary) cycle of births and deaths through which the soul passes in metempsychosis.
See also GAMES.
William Arthur Heidel
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.