KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
1 Timothy 2:11–13
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1 Timothy 2:11
11Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
11Let the woman learne in silence with all subiection:
1 Timothy 2:12
12But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
12But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to vsurpe authoritie ouer the man, but to be in silence.
1 Timothy 2:13
13For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
13For Adam was first formed, then Eue:
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DEFINED WORDS
1 Timothy 2:11
To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain.
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To gain knowledge, receive instruction, or come to know.
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The absence of speech or sound; holding one's peace.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
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MEANING IN THIS VERSE
subjection
The state of being placed or held under authority, control, obedience, or service.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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1 Timothy 2:12
However; introducing a contrast with what precedes.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To bear, undergo, or endure pain, loss, or hardship; also to allow or permit.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To instruct, inform, train, show, counsel, or communicate knowledge or doctrine.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To seize or assume authority without right; in 1 Timothy 2:12, to exercise the authority there forbidden.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A human being; an adult male; a person, husband, servant, or representative, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The absence of speech or sound; holding one's peace.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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1 Timothy 2:13
Before all others in time, place, order, rank, or importance; the beginning or earliest.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Eve, Adam’s wife and the mother of all living, as Genesis 3:20 states.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 11
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Open the full verse study34Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.
35And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.
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Open the full verse study22Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
23For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
24Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
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Open the full verse study3But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.
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Open the full verse study18Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
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Open the full verse study5For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:
6Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.
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Open the full verse study1LIKEWISE, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
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Open the full verse study16Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
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Open the full verse study5To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
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Open the full verse study20And when the king’s decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his empire, (for it is great,) all the wives shall give to their husbands honour, both to great and small.
From verse 12
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Open the full verse study34Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.
From verse 13
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Open the full verse study8For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.
9Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.
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Open the full verse study18¶ And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
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Open the full verse study27So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
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Open the full verse study22And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
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Open the full verse study7And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
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