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Proverbs 18:4
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Proverbs 18:4
4The words of a man’s mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook.
4*The words of a mans mouth, are as deepe waters, and the well-spring of wisedome as a flowing brooke.
- Cha.20.5.
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Proverbs 18:4
Spoken or written expressions; sayings, messages, commands, promises, or accounts.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A human being; an adult male; a person, husband, servant, or representative, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The opening used for eating and speaking; also an opening, edge, command, or testimony by extension.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The sea; the abyss of waters; the ocean.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
wellspring
A spring or fountain of water; figuratively, a source or origin.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
Sound judgment and the right use of knowledge; skill, discernment, or understanding.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Moving as a fluid; issuing; proceeding; abounding; smooth, as style; inundating.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
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Open the full verse study5Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.
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Open the full verse study11The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
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Open the full verse study6Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
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Open the full verse study14But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
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Open the full verse study14The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
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Open the full verse study38He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
39(But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)
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Open the full verse study16Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
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Open the full verse study34O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
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Open the full verse study2I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
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Open the full verse study22Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly.
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