KJV dictionary & concordance
Small stones or pebbles.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Proverbs 20:17
Complete exact-word concordance
Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
Bread of deceit is sweet to a man: but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with grauell.
1611 marginal noteHeb. bread of lying, or falshood.
1611 marginal noteCha.9.17.
Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.
Thy seede also had beene as the sand, and the ofspring of thy bowels like the grauell thereof: his name should not haue beene cut off, nor destroyed from before me.
He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
He hath also broken my teeth with grauell stones, hee hath couered me with ashes.
1611 marginal noteOr, rolled me in the ashes.
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Historical English dictionary sources
Small stones or fragments of stone, or very small pebbles, larger than the particles of sand, but often intermixed with them.
