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Proverbs 1:11

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If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
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  1. Proverbs 1:18Rank 1 from verse 11
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    18And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.

  2. Jeremiah 5:26Rank 2 from verse 11
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    26For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

  3. Proverbs 12:6Rank 3 from verse 11
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    6The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.

  4. Acts 25:3Rank 4 from verse 11
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    3And desired favour against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying wait in the way to kill him.

  5. Jeremiah 18:18–20Rank 5 from verse 11
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    18¶ 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.

  6. Acts 23:15Rank 6 from verse 11
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    15Now 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.

  7. Jeremiah 11:19Rank 7 from verse 11
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    19But 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.

  8. John 15:25Rank 8 from verse 11
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    25But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.

  9. Matthew 26:3–4Rank 9 from verse 11
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    3Then 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.

  10. Micah 7:2Rank 10 from verse 11
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    2The 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.

  11. Proverbs 1:16Rank 11 from verse 11
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    16For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

  12. Proverbs 30:14Rank 12 from verse 11
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    14There 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.

  13. Psalms 10:8–10Rank 13 from verse 11
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    8He 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.

  14. Psalms 17:12Rank 14 from verse 11
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    12Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

  15. Psalms 35:7Rank 15 from verse 11
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    7For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.

  16. Psalms 56:6Rank 16 from verse 11
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    6They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.

  17. Psalms 64:5–6Rank 17 from verse 11
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    5They 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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Proverbs 1:11

COMBINED MEANING

say

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Sense 1: To speak, declare, tell, or express. Sense 2: What is said.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

us

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The first-person plural object pronoun, referring to the speaker together with one or more others as recipients or objects of an action or relation.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

let

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Sense 1: To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain. Sense 2: To lower or send down.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

lay

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Sense 1: To put, place, set, arrange, deposit, apply, establish, impose, or cause to be in a stated position or condition. Sense 2: As the past tense of lie, to recline, rest, be situated, or remain in a state. Sense 3: In lay with, to have sexual relations. Sense 4: To press or bear upon. Sense 5: In lay up, lay by, or lay in store, to keep, store, or treasure; in lay wait, lay snares, lay an ambush, or lay siege, to prepare or set. Sense 6: In lay hold or lay hands on, to seize, take, apprehend, or touch. Sense 7: In lay down one's life, to surrender or give it; in lay aside, lay apart, or lay away, to remove, reject, or put off.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

wait

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Sense 1: To remain in expectation or readiness. Sense 2: To attend or serve. Sense 3: As a noun, an ambush or concealed watch.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893

COMBINED MEANING

for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

blood

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Sense 1: The bodily fluid associated with physical life. Sense 2: Life taken, bloodshed, or guilt and responsibility for it. Sense 3: Kindred, shared human descent, or natural human nature. Sense 4: The juice of grapes.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

privily

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Secretly, privately, covertly, without public notice, or in a concealed manner.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893

COMBINED MEANING

without

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Outside or on the exterior; beyond a boundary; lacking, absent, free from, not accompanied by, or apart from the person, thing, condition, means, or relation named.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

cause

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Sense 1: A reason, ground, matter in dispute, or judicial case. Sense 2: As a verb, to make something happen.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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1:10¶ My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.

1:11If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

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1:12Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

1:13We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:

1:14Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:

1:15My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:

1:16For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

1:17Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

1:18And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.

1:19So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

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