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Meant [Preterit tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

and participle passive of mean.

Meant Webster's Dictionary 1913

imp. & p. p. of Mean.

Meant [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Mean

Meantime [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Meanwhile

Meantime [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Meanwhile

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5 KJV and 7 BSB verses contain “Meant”

Genesis 50:20

But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.

As for you, what you intended against me for evil, God intended for good, in order to accomplish a day like this—to preserve the lives of many people.

Leviticus 10:3

Then Moses said unto Aaron, This is it that the LORD spake, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace.

Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the LORD meant when He said: ‘To those who come near Me I will show My holiness, and in the sight of all the people I will reveal My glory.’” But Aaron remained silent.

Mark 9:10

And they kept that saying with themselves, questioning one with another what the rising from the dead should mean.

So they kept this matter to themselves, discussing what it meant to rise from the dead.

Luke 8:9

And his disciples asked him, saying, What might this parable be?

Then His disciples asked Him what this parable meant.

Luke 12:1

In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

In the meantime, a crowd of many thousands had gathered, so that they were trampling one another. Jesus began to speak first to His disciples: “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

Luke 15:26

And he called one of the servants, and asked what these things meant.

So he called one of the servants and asked what was going on.

Luke 18:36

And hearing the multitude pass by, he asked what it meant.

When he heard the crowd going by, he asked what was happening.

John 13:22

Then the disciples looked one on another, doubting of whom he spake.

The disciples looked at one another, perplexed as to which of them He meant.

Romans 7:10

And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.

So I discovered that the very commandment that was meant to bring life actually brought death.

Philemon 1:22

But withal prepare me also a lodging: for I trust that through your prayers I shall be given unto you.

In the meantime, prepare a guest room for me, because I hope that through your prayers I will be restored to you.

1 Maccabees 13:14

Now when Tryphon knew that Simon was risen up instead of his brother Jonathan, and meant to join battle with him, he sent messengers unto him, saying,

2 Maccabees 12:3

The men of Joppa also did such an ungodly deed: they prayed the Jews that dwelt among them to go with their wives and children into the boats which they had prepared, as though they had meant them no hurt.