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Proverbs 24:2
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Proverbs 24:2
2For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.
2*For their heart studieth destruction, and their lippes talke of mischiefe.
- Psal.10.7.
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DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 24:2
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)
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
destruction
Ruin, overthrow, death, wasting, or the calamity and loss produced by destroying.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To speak or converse; speech or conversation.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Harm; hurt; injury; damage; evil, whether intended or not.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
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Open the full verse study14Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
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Open the full verse study7His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
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Open the full verse study3Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.
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Open the full verse study4None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
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Open the full verse study9¶ And David knew that Saul secretly practised mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring hither the ephod.
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Open the full verse study35They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
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Open the full verse study10And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
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Open the full verse study6And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had shewed him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai.
7¶ In the first month, that is, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar.
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Open the full verse study3Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,
4And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him.
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Open the full verse study3¶ That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.
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Open the full verse study14Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.
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Open the full verse study4He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.
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Open the full verse study20Pilate therefore, willing to release Jesus, spake again to them.
21But they cried, saying, Crucify him, crucify him.
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Open the full verse study2Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war.
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Open the full verse study4That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.
5They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?
6They 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 study8He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a mischievous person.
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