(Miles Coverdale Bible)
Index • Table des matières
GLOSSARY
The Parallel Psalter, Being the Prayer-Book Version
of the Psalms and a New Version (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1898).
Index • Table des matières| afore: | before (74, 129) |
| against: | in the presence of (23) |
| allow: | approve (11) |
| betimes: | early (5, 59, 143) |
| buckler: | shield (18, 35, 91) |
| cast lots: | gamble, as in throwing dice (22) |
| cast me in the teeth: | taunt me (42) |
| certify: | inform (19, 39) |
| comfortable: | comforting (54, 69) |
| cony: | rabbit (104) |
| conversation: | relationships with other people (37, 50) |
| cords: | ropes (2, 118, 140) |
| declare: | make known (19, 22, 30, 40, 50, 75, 77, 78, 96, 97) |
| despitefulness: | malicious contempt (123) |
| device(s): | ingenuity (21, 33) |
| discomfit: | defeat (18, 66) |
| discover: | lay bare (18, 29) |
| dissemble: | conceal one’s real nature (12, 18, 78) |
| dragon: | sea-monster (44, 74, 91, 148) |
| enduedst: | endowed (138) |
| ensue: | follow after (34) |
| entreated: | treated (107) |
| eschew: | avoid (17, 34) |
| fain: | glad(ly) (34, 70) |
| fast: | firm(ly) (33, 38, 65, 69, 73, 88, 89, 96, 102, 107, 111, 112, 125, 147, 148) |
| firebrand: | piece of burning wood (102) |
| flittings: | wanderings (56) |
| flood: | river (24, 29, 46, 69, 72, 89, 93, 107) |
| froward: | difficult, unruly (18, 44, 58, 64, 101) |
| grave (verb): | dig (7, 141) |
| ground (verb): | build upon a sold foundation (119.19) |
| ground of the heart: | bottom of the heart (68) |
| grudge: | complain (59) |
| hart: | deer (18, 42) |
| hell: | the grave (9, 16, 18, 30, 49, 55, 86, 88, 89, 116, 139) |
| high stomach: | pride (101) |
| hind: | doe (29) |
| hold of: | cling to (31) |
| horn: | emblem of power and might (18, 75, 89, 92, 112, 132, 148) |
| hyssop: | plant used in Jewish purification rites (51) |
| impute: | ascribe (32) |
| indite: | write or dictate (45) |
| inventions: | contrivances, lies (5, 28, 99, 106) |
| Jewry: | Judaea (76) |
| knap: | break into pieces with a sharp blow (46) |
| learn: | teach (2, 25, 82, 119.19) |
| leasing: | lies (4, 5) |
| Leviathan: | sea-monster (74, 104) |
| lot: | destiny or share (16, 105, 125) |
| member: | part or organ of the body (108, 139) |
| mercy-seat: | covering of the sacred ark in the Jewish temple (28) |
| minished: | diminished (12, 107) |
| myrrh, aloes, and cassia: | fragrant plants and gum-resins (45) |
| naughty: | wicked (86) |
| noisome: | harmful; evil-smelling (91) |
| oblation: | sacrifice or offering (27, 51) |
| outgoings: | the extremities (65) |
| peradventure: | perhaps (55, 139) |
| pit: | grave; trap (6, 7, 9, 28, 30, 35, 40, 57, 68, 88, 94, 119.11, 140, 141, 143) |
| ports: | gates (9) |
| prevent: | go before (18, 21, 119.19) |
| privily: | secretly (9, 10, 11, 31, 35, 64, 101, 142) |
| prove: | test (17,26, 66, 81, 95, 139) |
| quick: | alive (55) |
| quicken: | bring to life (22, 85, 119.4, 119.5, 119.7, 119.11, 119.14, 119.19, 119.20, 143) |
| ramping: | fierce (22) |
| refrain: | restrain (40, 76, 83, 119.13, 131) |
| reins: | (literally) kidneys; (figuratively) the center of one’s emotions (7, 16, 26, 73, 139) |
| runagate: | vagabond (68) |
| seat: | throne (9, 11, 45, 47, 89, 93, 97, 103, 107, 122, 132) |
| shawm: | musical instrument, similar to a clarinet (98) |
| sore: | severely, very (2, 38, 78, 119.11) |
| span: | hand’s breadth (39) |
| stiff neck: | rigidity (75) |
| stool: | throne (94) |
| strange: | foreign (18, 44, 81, 114, 137, 144) |
| suffer: | allow (16, 100, 132) |
| surety: | one who guarantees the payment of a debt or the apppearance of another person in court (119.16) |
| tabret: | small drum (81, 149) |
| tell: | count (19, 22, 48, 56, 139, 147) |
| timbrel: | tambourine-like musical instrument (68) |
| token: | sign (60, 65, 74, 86, 105, 135) |
| throughly: | thoroughly (51) |
| travail: | labor, specifically birth labor (7, 48) |
| trump: | trumpet (47) |
| try: | examine; judge (11, 12, 26, 139) |
| unfeigned: | honest (119.1) |
| unicorn: | legendary one-horned beast (22, 29, 92) |
| vanity: | something that is worthless (4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 24, 31, 39, 41, 62, 78, 119.5, 144) |
| verily: | truly (27, 37, 39, 58, 62) |
| water-pipes: | underground spring (42) |
| weights: | scales (62) |
| well-liking: | healthy (92) |
| whet: | sharpen (7, 64) |
| withal: | as well (69, 77, 78, 106, 109) |