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Proverbs 20:5–6
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Proverbs 20:5
5Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.
5*Counsell in the heart of man is like deepe water: but a man of vnderstanding will draw it out.
- Chap. 18.4.
Proverbs 20:6
6Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?
6‖Most men will proclaime euery one his owne goodnes: but a faithfull man who can finde?
- Or, bountie.
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DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 20:5
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)
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)
Similar or of the same kind; in the same manner; likely; or, as a verb, to please.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828
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)
The common liquid necessary for life; as a verb, to supply with water, irrigate, or cause to drink.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
But; marking a contrast or qualification in the sentence.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
understanding
Discernment, intelligence, comprehension, or the faculty of knowing.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To pull, drag, bring, lead, take out, attract, or make a line, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Outside, away from within, forth, absent, or no longer in a stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 20:6
Greatest in amount, number, or degree; in the highest degree.
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To promulgate; to announce; to publish. To utter openly; to make public.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Each one of all; all taken separately, without exception in the stated group.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The number one; a single person or thing; the same or united as a whole.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Belonging to oneself; peculiar or proper to the person or thing named.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Moral excellence, kindness, generosity, or that which is good.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
But; marking a contrast or qualification in the sentence.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Steadfast in truth, duty, promise, or allegiance; trustworthy and true.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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)
To discover, meet with, obtain, perceive, or learn by search or experience.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
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From verse 5
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Open the full verse study11For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
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Open the full verse study4The words of a man’s mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook.
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Open the full verse study6They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.
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Open the full verse study1HELP, Lord; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.
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Open the full verse study2Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
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Open the full verse study8I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?
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Open the full verse study33And he said unto him, Lord, I am ready to go with thee, both into prison, and to death.
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Open the full verse study2Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.
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Open the full verse study11The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.
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Open the full verse study14Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain.
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Open the full verse study1RUN ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.
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Open the full verse study2The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.
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Open the full verse study11I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.
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Open the full verse study28Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.
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Open the full verse study47Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!
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Open the full verse study28Then Peter said, Lo, we have left all, and followed thee.
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