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Proverbs 26:2
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Proverbs 26:2
2As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.
2As the bird by wandring, as the swallow by flying: so the curse causelesse shall not come.
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Proverbs 26:2
Moving without a settled course; straying from the right way.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Moving in air by means of wings; passing rapidly; springing; bursting; avoiding.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To utter a wish of evil against one; to imprecate evil upon; to call for mischief or injury to fall upon; to execrate.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Having no cause, or producing agent. Without just ground, reason or motive.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Open the full verse study8How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the Lord hath not defied?
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Open the full verse study2Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.
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Open the full verse study28Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.
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Open the full verse study12It may be that the Lord will look on mine affliction, and that the Lord will requite me good for his cursing this day.
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Open the full verse study4Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee.
5Nevertheless the Lord thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the Lord thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the Lord thy God loved thee.
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Open the full verse study43And the Philistine said unto David, Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with staves? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.
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Open the full verse study8As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.
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Open the full verse study28Then answered one of the people, and said, Thy father straitly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food this day. And the people were faint.
29Then said Jonathan, My father hath troubled the land: see, I pray you, how mine eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.
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