KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
James 3:7–8
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James 3:7
7For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:
7For euery †kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of †mankind.
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- Gr. nature of man.
James 3:8
8But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
8But the tongue can no man tame, it is an vnruly euill, ful of deadly poyson.
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DEFINED WORDS
James 3:7
Each one of all; all taken separately, without exception in the stated group.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A class, sort, or nature.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Reclaimed from wildness; domesticated; made gentle; subdued.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The human race; human beings collectively.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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James 3:8
However; introducing a contrast with what precedes.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The organ of speech; a language; speech or manner of speaking.
Meaning drawn from: 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)
To subdue, restrain, or bring under control; also to make a wild creature gentle or accustomed to man.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Not readily governed, restrained, or controlled; disorderly or unmanageable.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Causing death; mortal; mortally or destructively.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A substance which, when taken into the stomach, mixed with the blood or applied to the skin or flesh, proves fatal or deleterious by an action not mechanical; venom.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study4Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.
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Open the full verse study13Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
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Open the full verse study3They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips. Selah.
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Open the full verse study21The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.
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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 study4My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
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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:
4That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.
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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;
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Open the full verse study7Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?
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Open the full verse study33Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
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Open the full verse study11Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.
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Open the full verse study9And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
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