KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Proverbs 24:33–34
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Proverbs 24:33
33Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
33* Yet a little sleepe, a little slumber, a little folding of the handes to sleepe:
- Chap.6.9. &c.
Proverbs 24:34
34So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.
34†So shall thy pouertie come, as one that traueileth, and thy want, as an armed man.
- Hebr. a man of shield.
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DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 24:33
To rest in natural sleep; by figure, to be inactive or dead and at rest.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To sleep lightly; to doze.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The act of enclosing or gathering into a fold; also doubling over.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
The end parts of the arms used for holding and working; also figures of power, possession, agency, or aid.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 24:34
A state of being poor: want, indigence, or scarcity of material means.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
travelleth
Travels; journeys or goes from place to place.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Lack or need; poverty or deficiency; as a verb, to lack or be without.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
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)
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From verse 33
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Open the full verse study6Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
7For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
8But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
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Open the full verse study4Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
5Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
6¶ Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
7Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,
8Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
9How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
10Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
11So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
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Open the full verse study11And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
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Open the full verse study14Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
From verse 34
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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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