KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Proverbs 10:7–8
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Proverbs 10:7
7The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.
7*The memorie of the iust is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.
- Psal. 112.6.
Proverbs 10:8
8The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.
8†‖The wise in heart will receiue commaundements: but a prating foole shall fall.
- Hebr. a foole of lips.
- Or, shalbe beaten.
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DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 10:7
The faculty or act of retaining and recalling; also the remembrance left of a person or event.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
In a moral sense, upright; honest; having principles of rectitude; or conforming exactly to the laws, and to principles of rectitude in social conduct; equitable in the distribution of justice.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Favored by God; happy or spiritually prosperous; or praised, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
But; marking a contrast or qualification in the sentence.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A word or appellation by which a person or thing is known; also reputation, character, authority, remembrance, or the person represented, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To decay, putrefy, waste away, or lose soundness.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Proverbs 10:8
Having knowledge, discernment, sound judgment, prudence, or skill.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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 (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
To take, accept, admit, welcome, or obtain what is given or presented.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
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commandments
Authoritative commands, laws, or precepts; especially commands given by God, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
But; marking a contrast or qualification in the sentence.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Talking much on a trifling subject; talking idly.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A person lacking wisdom or moral understanding; as a verb, to act foolishly or deceive.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To descend, drop, or lose an upright position; to come upon, attack, happen, decline, fail, or be overthrown; as a noun, descent, ruin, or overthrow, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 7
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Open the full verse study6Surely he shall not be moved for ever: the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance.
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Open the full verse study48For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.
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Open the full verse study9Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.
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Open the full verse study13Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
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Open the full verse study16And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, both toward God, and toward his house.
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Open the full verse study15Let them be before the Lord continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
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Open the full verse study17His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
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Open the full verse study5Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.
6O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.
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Open the full verse study36And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a light alway before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.
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Open the full verse study34For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.
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Open the full verse study10And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.
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Open the full verse study23Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
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Open the full verse study13O Lord, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the Lord, the fountain of living waters.
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Open the full verse study24¶ Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
25And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
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Open the full verse study13Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
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Open the full verse study1WHOSO loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.
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Open the full verse study9Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
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Open the full verse study34Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
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Open the full verse study12The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
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Open the full verse study5A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
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Open the full verse study3He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
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Open the full verse study6A fool’s lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.
7A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
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Open the full verse study10He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.
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Open the full verse study13The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.
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Open the full verse study23In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.
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Open the full verse study8The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.
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