KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Proverbs 25:23–24
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Proverbs 25:23
23The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.
23‖The North winde driueth away raine: so doeth an angrie countenance a backbiting tongue.
- Or, The Northwinde bringeth foorth raine, so doeth a backbiting tongue, an angry countenance.
Proverbs 25:24
24It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.
24* It is better to dwell in a corner of the house top, then with a brawling woman, and in a wide house.
- Chap. 21.9. and 19.13.
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DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 25:23
The northern direction, side, quarter, or region named by the verse.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Breath; power of respiration. Air in motion with any degree of velocity, indefinitely; a current of air.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To force, urge, guide, or cause to move forward.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Water falling in drops from the clouds; as a verb, to fall or pour down like rain.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Feeling or showing anger; wrathful or provoked.
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MEANING IN THIS VERSE
countenance
The face, facial appearance, or look that reveals a person's condition or disposition.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
backbiting
The act of slandering the absent; secret calumny.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The organ of speech; a language; speech or manner of speaking.
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Proverbs 25:24
More excellent, more fitting, or to a greater degree.
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Quarrelsome, contentious, or given to noisy strife.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Broad, spacious, or having great extent.
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A building or dwelling; the people of a household or family; a lineage or family line; as a verb, to shelter, lodge, or provide a dwelling for.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 23
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Open the full verse study20For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
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Open the full verse study22Fair weather cometh out of the north: with God is terrible majesty.
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Open the full verse study20Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.
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Open the full verse study3He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.
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Open the full verse study30Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
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Open the full verse study5Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.
From verse 24
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Open the full verse study19It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.
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Open the full verse study9It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
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Open the full verse study15A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
16Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, which bewrayeth itself.
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Open the full verse study13A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
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