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Proverbs 21:5
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Proverbs 21:5
5The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.
5The thoughts of the diligent tend onely to plenteousnes: but of euery one that is hastie, onely to want.
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DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 21:5
Ideas, judgments, purposes, plans, reflections, or anxieties of the mind.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat, Bible Words Glossary (1893) · KJV usage
Steady, earnest, careful, and persistent in the effort or duty named.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage
To watch; to guard; to accompany as an assistant or protector.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
plenteousness
Abundance; copious supply; plenty.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage
But; marking a contrast or qualification in the sentence.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat, Bible Words Glossary (1893) · KJV usage
Each one of all; all taken separately, without exception in the stated group.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · 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 · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Quick; speedy; opposed to slow.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage
Lack or need; poverty or deficiency; as a verb, to lack or be without.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat, Bible Words Glossary (1893)
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Open the full verse study4He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
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Open the full verse study4The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
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Open the full verse study11And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
12That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.
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Open the full verse study28Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
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Open the full verse study23Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.
24For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation?
25The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.
26The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of the field.
27And thou shalt have goats’ milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance for thy maidens.
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Open the full verse study29He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
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Open the full verse study22He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.
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Open the full verse study21An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
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