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Proverbs 25:16
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Proverbs 25:16
16Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.
16Hast thou found hony? eate so much as is sufficient for thee: lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.
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DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 25:16
Have: possess, hold, receive, or experience; also used as an auxiliary verb.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Discovered, obtained, or encountered; or established upon a foundation, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
To take food into the body; to consume, devour, or waste away, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
A great quantity or degree; abundant in amount.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
sufficient
Enough or adequate for the stated need, purpose, work, or condition.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
That not; for fear that.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Made full; supplied with abundance.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Matter cast from the stomach; as a verb, to eject it.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study27It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.
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Open the full verse study18And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
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Open the full verse study13My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste:
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.
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Open the full verse study25And all they of the land came to a wood; and there was honey upon the ground.
26And when the people were come into the wood, behold, the honey dropped; but no man put his hand to his mouth: for the people feared the oath.
27But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped it in an honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened.
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Open the full verse study15Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
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Open the full verse study8¶ And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion.
9And he took thereof in his hands, and went on eating, and came to his father and mother, and he gave them, and they did eat: but he told not them that he had taken the honey out of the carcase of the lion.
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Open the full verse study34¶ And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
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Open the full verse study22And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land.
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Open the full verse study8The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.
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