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Selve [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Self; same.

Selvedge [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The edgr of a cloth, where it is closed by complication the threads; a woven border, or border of the close works.

Selvedge [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The edge of cloth which is woven in such a manner as to prevent raveling.

2. The edge plate of a lock, through which the bolt passes.

3. A layer of clay or decomposed rock along the wall of a vein. See Gouge, n., 4.

Selvedged [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Having a selvedge.

Selvedged [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having a selvage.

Selves [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

SELVES , plu. of self .

Selves [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

pl. of Self.

Selves [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Self

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Exodus 26:4

And thou shalt make loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling; and likewise shalt thou make in the uttermost edge of another curtain, in the coupling of the second.

Make loops of blue material on the edge of the end curtain in the first set, and do the same for the end curtain in the second set.

Exodus 36:11

And he made loops of blue on the edge of one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling: likewise he made in the uttermost side of another curtain, in the coupling of the second.

He made loops of blue material on the edge of the end curtain in the first set, and also on the end curtain in the second set.

Luke 21:30

When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.

When they sprout leaves, you can see for yourselves and know that summer is near.

Acts 20:30

Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.

Even from your own number, men will rise up and distort the truth to draw away disciples after them.

2 Corinthians 8:5

And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.

And not only did they do as we expected, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and then to us, because it was the will of God.

2 Corinthians 13:5

Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?

Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Can’t you see for yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you actually fail the test?

2 Timothy 3:2

For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

James 1:22

But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.

2 Esdras 1:27

Ye have not as it were forsaken me, but your own selves, saith the Lord.

2 Maccabees 7:23

But doubtless the Creator of the world, who formed the generation of man, and found out the beginning of all things, will also of his own mercy give you breath and life again, as ye now regard not your own selves for his laws’ sake.