KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
1 Samuel 25:4–9
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1 Samuel 25:4
4¶ And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did shear his sheep.
4¶ And Dauid heard in the wildernesse, that Nabal did sheare his sheepe.
1 Samuel 25:5
5And David sent out ten young men, and David said unto the young men, Get you up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name:
5And Dauid sent out ten yong men, and Dauid said vnto the young men, Get you vp to Carmel, and goe to Nabal, and †greete him in my name;
- Heb. aske him in my name, of peace.
1 Samuel 25:6
6And thus shall ye say to him that liveth in prosperity, Peace be both to thee, and peace be to thine house, and peace be unto all that thou hast.
6And thus shall ye say to him that liueth in prosperitie, Peace be both to thee, and peace be to thine house, and peace be vnto all that thou hast.
1 Samuel 25:7
7And now I have heard that thou hast shearers: now thy shepherds which were with us, we hurt them not, neither was there ought missing unto them, all the while they were in Carmel.
7And now, I haue heard that thou hast shearers: now thy shepheards which were with vs, wee †hurt them not, neither was there ought missing vnto them, all the while they were in Carmel.
- Heb. shamed.
1 Samuel 25:8
8Ask thy young men, and they will shew thee. Wherefore let the young men find favour in thine eyes: for we come in a good day: give, I pray thee, whatsoever cometh to thine hand unto thy servants, and to thy son David.
8Aske thy yong men, and they will shew thee: wherefore let the yong men finde fauour in thine eyes: (for we come in a good day) giue, I pray thee, whatsoeuer commeth to thine hand, vnto thy seruants, and to thy sonne Dauid.
1 Samuel 25:9
9And when David’s young men came, they spake to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased.
9And when Dauids yong men came, they spake to Nabal according to all those words in the name of Dauid, and †ceased.
- Heb. rested.
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DEFINED WORDS
1 Samuel 25:4
To cut or clip something from the surface with an instrument of two blades; to separate any thing from the surface by shears, scissors or a like instrument.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
DEFINED WORDS
1 Samuel 25:5
Caused to go or be carried; dispatched.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Outside, away from within, forth, absent, or no longer in a stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Early in life or growth; not mature; also offspring, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Spoke, declared, reported, commanded, or expressed in words.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To procure; to obtain; to gain possession of, by almost any means.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To salute, welcome, address kindly, or send expressions of goodwill.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A word or appellation by which a person or thing is known; also reputation, character, authority, remembrance, or the person represented, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
DEFINED WORDS
1 Samuel 25:6
To speak, declare, tell, or express; also what is said.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
prosperity
Advance or gain in any thing good or desirable; successful progress in any business or enterprise; success; attainment of the object desired.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Freedom from war, strife, disturbance, or inward trouble; quietness, reconciliation, safety, or well-being, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
A building or dwelling; the people of a household or family; a lineage or family line; as a verb, to shelter, lodge, or provide a dwelling for.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Have: possess, hold, receive, or experience; also used as an auxiliary verb.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
DEFINED WORDS
1 Samuel 25:7
Have: possess, hold, receive, or experience; also used as an auxiliary verb.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Persons who cut wool from sheep or otherwise shear.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To harm; to damage; to injure by occasioning loss.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Should or is bound to; expresses duty, fitness, or necessity.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Absent, lost, or not found where expected.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
DEFINED WORDS
1 Samuel 25:8
Early in life or growth; not mature; also offspring, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
To show; to make visible, reveal, declare, or make known.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Why; for what reason.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
To discover, meet with, obtain, perceive, or learn by search or experience.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Kind regard, approval, goodwill, or a gracious disposition shown toward another.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
The organs of sight; by extension, sight, attention, judgment, or presence, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE)
That which is right, beneficial, pleasing, useful, or morally upright.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The period of light between morning and evening; a complete daily cycle; or a specified time, age, or season, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To grant, hand, offer, supply, yield, or cause to have.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
whatsoever
Whatever; anything or everything that, without restriction in the stated class.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
The part of the body at the end of the arm; figuratively, power, possession, aid, or agency.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Persons who serve, labour for, obey, or attend another.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
DEFINED WORDS
1 Samuel 25:9
Early in life or growth; not mature; also offspring, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Agreeing or corresponding; in conformity with; as stated, measured, or directed by.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Spoken or written expressions; sayings, messages, commands, promises, or accounts.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A word or appellation by which a person or thing is known; also reputation, character, authority, remembrance, or the person represented, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To stop moving, acting or speaking; to leave off; to give over; followed by from before a noun.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
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Open the full verse study23¶ And it came to pass after two full years, that Absalom had sheepshearers in Baal-hazor, which is beside Ephraim: and Absalom invited all the king’s sons.
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Open the full verse study13And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold thy father in law goeth up to Timnath to shear his sheep.
From verse 5
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Open the full verse study22And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren.
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Open the full verse study23And he said, Peace be to you, fear not: your God, and the God of your father, hath given you treasure in your sacks: I had your money. And he brought Simeon out unto them.
From verse 6
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Open the full verse study18Then the spirit came upon Amasai, who was chief of the captains, and he said, Thine are we, David, and on thy side, thou son of Jesse: peace, peace be unto thee, and peace be to thine helpers; for thy God helpeth thee. Then David received them, and made them captains of the band.
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Open the full verse study7Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces.
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Open the full verse study6But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.
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Open the full verse study5And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this house.
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Open the full verse study16Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means. The Lord be with you all.
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Open the full verse study27Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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Open the full verse study12And when ye come into an house, salute it.
13And if the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it: but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you.
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Open the full verse study8For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.
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Open the full verse study28And Ahimaaz called, and said unto the king, All is well. And he fell down to the earth upon his face before the king, and said, Blessed be the Lord thy God, which hath delivered up the men that lifted up their hand against my lord the king.
From verse 7
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Open the full verse study21Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him: and he hath requited me evil for good.
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Open the full verse study15But the men were very good unto us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we any thing, as long as we were conversant with them, when we were in the fields:
16They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.
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Open the full verse study2And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
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Open the full verse study6The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
7And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
8And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice’ den.
9They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.
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Open the full verse study14And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages.
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Open the full verse study15That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
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Open the full verse study8Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
From verse 8
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Open the full verse study19Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.
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Open the full verse study10Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the Lord is your strength.
11So the Levites stilled all the people, saying, Hold your peace, for the day is holy; neither be ye grieved.
12And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared unto them.
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Open the full verse study11Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand: for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not, know thou and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in mine hand, and I have not sinned against thee; yet thou huntest my soul to take it.
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Open the full verse study6And the Lord called yet again, Samuel. And Samuel arose and went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou didst call me. And he answered, I called not, my son; lie down again.
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Open the full verse study2Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth.
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Open the full verse study22As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.
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Open the full verse study41But rather give alms of such things as ye have; and, behold, all things are clean unto you.
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Open the full verse study12¶ Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee.
13But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:
14And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.
From verse 9
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Open the full verse study7Therefore he said unto Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about them walls, and towers, gates, and bars, while the land is yet before us; because we have sought the Lord our God, we have sought him, and he hath given us rest on every side. So they built and prospered.
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Open the full verse study15And when the sons of the prophets which were to view at Jericho saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha. And they came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him.
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Open the full verse study4And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
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