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Ecclesiastes 12:11
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Ecclesiastes 12:11
11The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.
11The wordes of the wise are as goads, and as nailes fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are giuen from one shepheard.
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DEFINED WORDS
Ecclesiastes 12:11
Spoken or written expressions; sayings, messages, commands, promises, or accounts.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Having knowledge, discernment, sound judgment, prudence, or skill.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Pointed rods used to urge animals forward; by figure, sharp inducements or provocations.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Made firm, fixed, secured, joined, or attached.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Persons who rule, own, teach, or exercise authority over others.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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assemblies
Groups of people gathered together, especially for a common purpose.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Bestowed, granted, delivered, or appointed.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
The number one; a single person or thing; the same or united as a whole.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Open the full verse study37¶ Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?
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Open the full verse study12For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
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Open the full verse study29Is not my word like as a fire? saith the Lord; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
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Open the full verse study23And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.
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Open the full verse study4(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)
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Open the full verse study11He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.
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Open the full verse study10Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?
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Open the full verse study6To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
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Open the full verse study17Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.
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Open the full verse study23And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father’s house.
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Open the full verse study14I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.
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Open the full verse study7¶ But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
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Open the full verse study1THE Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
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Open the full verse study1GIVE ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth.
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Open the full verse study4And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.
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Open the full verse study8And now for a little space grace hath been shewed from the Lord our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.
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Open the full verse study24But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)
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Open the full verse study20Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
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