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Proverbs 1:11
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Proverbs 1:11
11If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
11If they say, Come with vs, let vs lay wait for blood, let vs lurke priuily for the innocent without cause:
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DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 1:11
To speak, declare, tell, or express; also what is said.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Place or set down; also rested or remained in a recumbent position, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
To remain in expectation or readiness; to attend or serve; as a noun, an ambush or concealed watch.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
The fluid that circulates through the body and is associated with life; in KJV usage, also life, bloodshed and its guilt, kindred, human nature, blood shed in sacrifice, or the juice of grapes.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
To retire from public observation; to keep out of sight. To lie hid; to lie in wait. To lie concealed or unperceived.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Secretly or privately; without open notice.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Free from guilt in a matter; not blameworthy, harmful, or deserving punishment.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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)
A reason, ground, matter in dispute, or judicial case; as a verb, to make something happen.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
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Open the full verse study18And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
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Open the full verse study26For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
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Open the full verse study6The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
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Open the full verse study3And desired favour against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying wait in the way to kill him.
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Open the full verse study18¶ Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
19Give heed to me, O Lord, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me.
20Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.
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Open the full verse study15Now therefore ye with the council signify to the chief captain that he bring him down unto you to morrow, as though ye would inquire something more perfectly concerning him: and we, or ever he come near, are ready to kill him.
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Open the full verse study19But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
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Open the full verse study25But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
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Open the full verse study3Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,
4And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him.
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Open the full verse study2The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.
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Open the full verse study16For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
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Open the full verse study14There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
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Open the full verse study8He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.
9He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
10He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.
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Open the full verse study12Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
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Open the full verse study7For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.
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Open the full verse study6They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.
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Open the full verse study5They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?
6They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.
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