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Ecclesiastes 10:11
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Ecclesiastes 10:11
11Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.
11†Surely the serpent will bite without inchauntment, and a babbler is no better.
- Heb. the master of the tongue.
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DEFINED WORDS
Ecclesiastes 10:11
Certainly, truly, firmly, or without doubt.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To seize, pierce, or wound with the teeth; figuratively, to injure, vex, or consume another.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Outside; not within; lacking; free from; or in the absence of.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
enchantment
A spell, incantation, or practice of magic.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
An idle talker; an irrational prattler; a teller of secrets.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
More excellent, more fitting, or to a greater degree.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
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From verse 11
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Open the full verse study17For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the Lord.
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Open the full verse study4Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
5Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
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Open the full verse study2Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp rasor, working deceitfully.
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Open the full verse study3Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:
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Open the full verse study6And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
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Open the full verse study21Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
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