Proverbs 24:13
My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste:
*†My sonne, eate thou honie, because it is good, and the honie combe, which is sweete to thy taste.
Original 1611 marginTranslation notes and cross-references are kept distinct.
- †Hebrew wordingHeb. vpon thy palate.
- *Cross-referencePsal.19.9. & 119.103.
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- Isaiah 7:15Rank 1 from verse 13
- Song of Solomon 5:1Rank 2 from verse 13
1I AM come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.
1¶ ‖I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse, I haue gathered my Myrrhe with my spice, I haue eaten my honie combe with my hony, I haue drunke my wine with my milke: eate, O friends, drinke, yea drinke abundantly, O beloued!
- Proverbs 25:16Rank 3 from verse 13
- Matthew 3:4Rank 4 from verse 13
- Psalms 119:103Rank 5 from verse 13
- Song of Solomon 4:11Rank 6 from verse 13
- Proverbs 25:27Rank 7 from verse 13
- Psalms 19:10Rank 8 from verse 13
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Proverbs 24:13
1. A male child or descendant. 2. One belonging to, related to, or characterized by the person, people, place, condition, or quality named.
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To take food into the body; to consume, devour, or waste away.
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The singular second-person subject pronoun, meaning you when directly addressing one person, being, or individually treated addressee.
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A naturally sweet food found in combs or deposits.
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Sense 1: Right, morally upright, beneficial, pleasing, useful, suitable, sound, favourable, or excellent. Sense 2: A good thing, benefit, welfare, possession, or goods. Sense 3: In ‘make good,’ to repair, repay, fulfil, establish, or prove.
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The waxen structure of cells made by bees to hold honey and their young.
Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828
1. An interrogative or relative pronoun identifying one or more persons or things from a stated or implied set. 2. That which; what.
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Sense 1: Pleasing to the taste or smell. Sense 2: Pleasant, agreeable, or delightful to the senses or mind.
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Sense 1: To perceive flavor by the mouth, or to eat or drink. Sense 2: Figuratively, to experience or partake of. As a noun, the sensation, flavor, or discernment received by tasting.
Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828
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24:12If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?
24:12*If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not: doth not he that pondereth the heart, consider it? and he that keepeth thy soule, doth not he know it? and shall not hee render to euery man according to his workes?
24:13My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste:
24:13*†My sonne, eate thou honie, because it is good, and the honie combe, which is sweete to thy taste.
Selected passage24:14So 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.
24:14*So shall the knowledge of wisedome be vnto thy soule: when thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off.