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Ecclesiastes 7:21–22
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Ecclesiastes 7:21
21Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest thou hear thy servant curse thee:
21†Also take no heede vnto all words that are spoken; lest thou heare thy seruant curse thee.
- Heb. giue not thine heart.
Ecclesiastes 7:22
22For oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others.
22For often times also thine owne heart knoweth, that thou thy selfe likewise hast cursed others.
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DEFINED WORDS
Ecclesiastes 7:21
To receive, seize, carry, accept, choose, or lay hold of, with the exact sense determined by context.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat, Bible Words Glossary (1893)
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage
Spoken or written expressions; sayings, messages, commands, promises, or accounts.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
That not; for fear that.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
To perceive by the ear; to listen, attend, understand, or obey, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
One who serves another; a worker, attendant, subject, bondservant, or appointed minister.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To utter a wish of evil against one; to imprecate evil upon; to call for mischief or injury to fall upon; to execrate.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage
DEFINED WORDS
Ecclesiastes 7:22
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oftentimes
Frequently; often; many times.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage
Belonging to oneself; peculiar or proper to the person or thing named.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
The bodily organ; more often in Scripture, the inward person—the mind, will, affections, conscience, or moral character—according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
In like manner; also or similarly.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage
Have: possess, hold, receive, or experience; also used as an auxiliary verb.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage
Execrated; afflicted; vexed; tormented; blasted by a curse.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage
Other persons or things; those distinct from the ones already named.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Skeat, Bible Words Glossary (1893) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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From verse 21
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Open the full verse study10Accuse not a servant unto his master, lest he curse thee, and thou be found guilty.
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Open the full verse study21That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.
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Open the full verse study10And the king said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah? so let him curse, because the Lord hath said unto him, Curse David. Who shall then say, Wherefore hast thou done so?
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Open the full verse study5Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
6Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
7Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
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Open the full verse study19And said unto the king, Let not my lord impute iniquity unto me, neither do thou remember that which thy servant did perversely the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart.
From verse 22
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Open the full verse study9Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.
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Open the full verse study44The king said moreover to Shimei, Thou knowest all the wickedness which thine heart is privy to, that thou didst to David my father: therefore the Lord shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head;
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Open the full verse study7So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
8And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground.
9And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.
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Open the full verse study19For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
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Open the full verse study32Then his lord, after that he had called him, said unto him, O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou desiredst me:
33Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee?
34And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him.
35So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.
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