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Proverbs 11:1
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Proverbs 11:1
1A FALSE balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight.
1¶ *††A false ballance is abomination to the LORD: but a iust weight is his delight.
- Heb. ballances of deceit.
- Heb. a perfect stone.
- Leuit.19.36. deut. 25.15. cha. 16.11. and 20.10,23.
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DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 11:1
Not solid or sound; deceiving expectations. Not faithful or loyal; treacherous; perfidious; deceitful.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
A scale or weighing instrument by which weight, worth, or equality is tested.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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abomination
An object that excites loathing; hence, an idol.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
LORD: The name of God the Father in English, from the Hebrew Tetragrammaton YHWH, also rendered GOD and JEHOVAH. Lord: A title applied to God and Christ as ruler and master, the one to whom worship and obedience are due. lord: A male master, owner, ruler, or superior addressed or described as one having authority.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
But; marking a contrast or qualification in the sentence.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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)
Heaviness or a measured load; figuratively, a burden, importance, influence, force, or consequence.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To affect with great pleasure; to please highly; to give or afford high satisfaction or joy. A high degree of pleasure, or satisfaction of mind; joy.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
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Open the full verse study13¶ Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
14Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small.
15But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
16For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the Lord thy God.
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Open the full verse study11A just weight and balance are the Lord’s: all the weights of the bag are his work.
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Open the full verse study23Divers weights are an abomination unto the Lord; and a false balance is not good.
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Open the full verse study35¶ Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.
36Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the Lord your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.
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Open the full verse study10Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the Lord.
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Open the full verse study7¶ He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
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Open the full verse study5Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?
6That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
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Open the full verse study10Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
11The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.
12And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.
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Open the full verse study10¶ Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?
11Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
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