Psalms 135:16

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

They have mouths, but they speak not; eyes have they, but they see not;

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Formal EquivalenceSource: King James VersionBest for: Original-language word studies

🎯 Translation Approach

Classic King James Version text presented with Strong's numbering to link English words to their underlying Hebrew and Greek terms. Prioritizes literal/formal correspondence while enabling original-language word study.

Word-for-word

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Readability

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💎 Distinctive Features

Integrated Strong's numbering: Each English term is keyed to a Strong's number, enabling direct lookup of the underlying Hebrew or Greek word.
KJV text basis: Employs the classic King James Version wording known for formal equivalence and literary style.
Study-focused layout: Optimized for research and analysis, prioritizing lexical access over uninterrupted readability.
Concordance compatibility: Strong's numbers map to widely available concordances and lexicons for deeper study.

✅ Strengths

Strong linkage to original Hebrew/Greek via Strong's numbers
High concordance with source wording
Well-suited for in-depth word studies and exegesis
Widely recognized and referenced KJV text

⚠️ Considerations

Archaic language can be difficult for modern readers
Reference numbers can disrupt continuous reading
Less suitable for public or devotional reading compared to modern translations

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Students of biblical languages
Pastors and teachers
Serious Bible students
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Referenced Verses

Isa 6:10 : 10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
Matt 13:14-16 : 14 And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: 15 For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them. 16 But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

Ps 115:4-8
5 verses
96%
4Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
5They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not:
6They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not:
7They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat.
8They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.
Ps 135:17-18
2 verses
92%
17They have ears, but they hear not; neither is there any breath in their mouths.
18They that make them are like unto them: so is every one that trusteth in them.
Ps 135:15
79%
15The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
Isa 44:18
79%
18They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.
Isa 42:17-18
2 verses
73%
17They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.
18Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.
Jer 10:5
73%
5They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.
Jer 5:21
73%
21Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:
Isa 44:9-10
2 verses
73%
9They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
10Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?
Ps 59:7
72%
7Behold, they belch out{H8686)} with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear{H8802)}?
Matt 13:13-14
2 verses
71%
13Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
14And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:
Jer 10:14-15
2 verses
71%
14Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
15They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
Hab 2:18-19
2 verses
71%
18What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
19Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.
Isa 42:20
71%
20Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he heareth not.
Jer 10:8
70%
8But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
Mic 7:16
70%
16The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.
Rom 11:8
70%
8(According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.
Jer 51:17-18
2 verses
70%
17Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
18They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
Isa 2:8
70%
8Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:
Isa 56:10
70%
10His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
Isa 32:3
70%
3And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken.
Job 32:15-16
2 verses
70%
15They were amazed, they answered no more: they left off speaking.
16When I had waited,(for they spake not, but stood still, and answered no more;)
Ps 38:13
70%
13But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth{H8799)} not his mouth.
Deut 29:4
70%
4Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.
Ps 115:17
70%
17The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence.
Ps 19:3
70%
3There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.
Matt 13:16
70%
16But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.
Ezek 13:6
69%
6They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The LORD saith: and the LORD hath not sent them: and they have made others to hope that they would confirm the word.
Acts 28:26
69%
26Saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive:
Deut 4:28
69%
28And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
Isa 41:29
69%
29Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.
Deut 32:28
69%
28For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.
Isa 29:18
69%
18And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.
Ps 73:7
69%
7Their eyes stand out{H8804)} with fatness: they have more{H8804)} than heart could wish.
Mark 8:18
69%
18Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember?
Rev 9:20
69%
20And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: