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quick alive, living
"The quick and the dead" is the living and the dead, nothing to do with speed. The same root gives "quicken", to make alive — which is what Psalm 119:25 is asking for.
Means: alive, livingIn the KJV: 36 timesStill in use, different meaning
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The first 30 of 35 verses.
And the priest shall see him: and, behold, if the rising be white in the skin, and it have turned the hair white, and there be quick raw flesh in the rising;
Or if there be any flesh, in the skin whereof there is a hot burning, and the quick flesh that burneth have a white bright spot, somewhat reddish, or white;
But if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the LORD.
Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.
Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.
So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.
My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word.
Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.
Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.
This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me.
Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth.
I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me.
I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O LORD, according unto thy word.
Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness: O LORD, quicken me according to thy judgment.
Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word.
Great are thy tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to thy judgments.
Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness.
Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:
Quicken me, O LORD, for thy name’s sake: for thy righteousness’ sake bring my soul out of trouble.
And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:
For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he which was ordained of God to be the Judge of quick and dead.
(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.
But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:
And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
Common questions
What does "quick" mean in the Bible?
In the King James Version quick means alive, living. "The quick and the dead" is the living and the dead, nothing to do with speed. The same root gives "quicken", to make alive — which is what Psalm 119:25 is asking for.
How many times does "quick" appear in the King James Version?
36 times, counting its other forms (quicken 13 times, quick 10 times, quickened 7 times, quickeneth 5 times, quickening 1 time).
What Hebrew word is behind "quick"?
Most often חָיָה (châyâh), Strong's H2421, meaning to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive.
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