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Proverbs 23:32
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Proverbs 23:32
32At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
32‖At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
- Or, acockatrice.
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Proverbs 23:32
At the end or after all others; latest or final. As a verb, to continue or endure.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To bite: to seize, cut, pierce, or wound with the teeth or mouth.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Similar or of the same kind; in the same manner; likely; or, as a verb, to please.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828
A sharp piercing power or instrument of pain; figuratively, the power by which death wounds, identified in the passage with sin.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
A venomous serpent called an adder in the KJV; the entry does not impose a particular modern species.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study3The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:
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Open the full verse study7¶ But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
8For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.
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Open the full verse study25But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
26And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.
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Open the full verse study19As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
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Open the full verse study3And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:
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Open the full verse study8He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
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Open the full verse study12For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods.
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Open the full verse study5And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I stretch forth mine hand upon Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them.
6And Moses and Aaron did as the Lord commanded them, so did they.
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Open the full verse study5They hatch cockatrice’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
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Open the full verse study31The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
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Open the full verse study17For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the Lord.
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Open the full verse study16He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.
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Open the full verse study11And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
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Open the full verse study21What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
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