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Proverbs 16:24
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Proverbs 16:24
24Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
24Pleasant words are as an honycombe, sweete to the soule, and health to the bones.
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DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 16:24
Cheerful; enlivening. Giving pleasure; gratifying.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Spoken or written expressions; sayings, messages, commands, promises, or accounts.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The waxen structure of cells made by bees to hold honey and their young.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Pleasing to the smell; fragrant. Pleasing to the eye; beautiful.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Soundness, healing, or well-being.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study18There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
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Open the full verse study13My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste:
14So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul: when thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off.
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Open the full verse study11A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
12As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear.
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Open the full verse study22For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
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Open the full verse study16Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.
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Open the full verse study8It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.
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Open the full verse study103How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
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Open the full verse study9Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel.
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Open the full verse study10More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
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Open the full verse study26The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord: but the words of the pure are pleasant words.
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Open the full verse study16Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O Lord God of hosts.
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Open the full verse study2My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:
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Open the full verse study19¶ Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.
20And when he had so said, he shewed unto them his hands and his side. Then were the disciples glad, when they saw the Lord.
21Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.
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Open the full verse study23A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!
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Open the full verse study11Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.
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