KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Ecclesiastes 4:11–12
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Ecclesiastes 4:11
11Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone?
11Againe, if two lye together, then they haue heate; but howe can one be warme alone?
Ecclesiastes 4:12
12And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
12And if one preuaile against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold coard is not quickly broken.
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DEFINED WORDS
Ecclesiastes 4:11
Another time; once more; back to a former place or condition; or in return.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The number equal to one and one.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To recline, rest, remain, or be situated; also, to speak falsely or a falsehood.
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In one place, company, time, purpose, or united condition.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Warmth or high temperature; also to make or become hot.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
But; marking a contrast or qualification in the sentence.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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)
Having heat; becoming heated; as a verb, to make oneself or another warm.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Separately; by itself.
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Ecclesiastes 4:12
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)
Opposed to, contrary to, facing, toward, or in contact with; in some settings, exposed to or ready for a stated time.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
The number equal to one and one.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To oppose; to resist, either with physical or moral force.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Consisting of three parts or strands; three together.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A string, or small rope, composed of several strands twisted together.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Speedily, promptly, soon, or without delay.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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From verse 11
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Open the full verse study1NOW king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat.
2Wherefore his servants said unto him, Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand before the king, and let her cherish him, and let her lie in thy bosom, that my lord the king may get heat.
3So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the coasts of Israel, and found Abishag a Shunammite, and brought her to the king.
4And the damsel was very fair, and cherished the king, and ministered to him: but the king knew her not.
From verse 12
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Open the full verse study16Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter.
17If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king.
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Open the full verse study3Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
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Open the full verse study9And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines that were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were gone away:
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Open the full verse study18And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief among three. And he lifted up his spear against three hundred, and slew them, and had the name among three.
19Was he not most honourable of three? therefore he was their captain: howbeit he attained not unto the first three.
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Open the full verse study23He was more honourable than the thirty, but he attained not to the first three. And David set him over his guard.
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Open the full verse study16And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Beth-lehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the Lord.
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