Caravaggio, Saint Jerome Writing (c. 1605), Galleria Borghese. Public domain.
7 verses in the King James Version. Word study for “off” →
But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.
For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.
So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul: when thou hast found it , then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off.
He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet, and drinketh damage.
Thine own friend, and thy father’s friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother’s house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.
There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
