KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Proverbs 15:13
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Proverbs 15:13
13A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
13*A merry heart maketh a cheerefull countenance: but by sorrow of the heart, the spirit is broken.
- Chap.17.22.
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DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 15:13
Cheerful, joyful, or glad.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
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 form, create, produce, cause, appoint, perform, or render into a stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Skeat 1893
Lively; animated; having good spirits; moderately joyful.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
countenance
The face, facial appearance, or look that reveals a person's condition or disposition.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
But; marking a contrast or qualification in the sentence.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Grief, mental pain, distress, or mourning; also to grieve.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
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Open the full verse study22A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
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Open the full verse study1LET not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
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Open the full verse study25Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.
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Open the full verse study14The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?
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Open the full verse study15All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.
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Open the full verse study10For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
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Open the full verse study7So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.
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Open the full verse study12For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
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Open the full verse study2Wherefore the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid,
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