Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain.
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
Who so boasteth himselfe of a false gift, is like cloudes and winde without raine.
1611 marginal noteHebr. in a gift of falshood.
KJV dictionary & concordance
Sense 1: Water falling in drops from the clouds. Sense 2: As a verb, to fall or pour down like rain.
Definition sources
Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Genesis 2:5
Complete exact-word concordance
Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain.
Who so boasteth himselfe of a false gift, is like cloudes and winde without raine.
1611 marginal noteHebr. in a gift of falshood.
The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.
The North winde driueth away raine: so doeth an angrie countenance a backbiting tongue.
1611 marginal noteOr, The Northwinde bringeth foorth raine, so doeth a backbiting tongue, an angry countenance.
AS snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool.
¶ As snow in summer, and as raine in haruest: so honour is not seemely for a foole.
A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.
A poore man that oppresseth the poore, is like a sweeping raine which leaueth no food.
1611 marginal noteHeb. without foode.
If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.
If the clouds be full of raine, they emptie themselues vpon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the South, or toward the North, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.
While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:
While the Sunne, or the light, or the moone, or the starres be not darkened, nor the cloudes returne after the raine:
For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;
For loe, the winter is past, the raine is ouer, and gone.
And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.
And there shalbe a tabernacle for a shadow in the day time from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a couert from storme and from raine.
And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
And I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned, nor digged, but there shall come vp briars and thornes: I will also command the cloudes, that they raine no raine vpon it.
Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures.
Then shall he giue the raine of thy seed that thou shalt sow the ground withall; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shalbe fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattell feed in large pastures.
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