KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Proverbs 26:22–24
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Proverbs 26:22
22The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
22*†The words of a tale-bearer are as woundes, and they goe downe into the innermost parts of the belly.
- Heb. chambers.
- Cha.18.8
Proverbs 26:23
23Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.
23Burning lips, and a wicked heart, are like a potsheard couered with siluer drosse.
Proverbs 26:24
24He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him;
24‖Hee that hateth, dissembleth with his lips, and layeth vp deceit within him.
- Or, is knowen.
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DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 26:22
Spoken or written expressions; sayings, messages, commands, promises, or accounts.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
talebearer
One who spreads private reports or gossip and thereby causes strife.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Bodily injuries, hurts, or blows that break or damage the flesh.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
From a higher place or position to a lower one; below.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Farthest inward; most remote from the outward part.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Portions or divisions of a whole; also divides, separates, departs, or assigns shares.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 26:23
Being on fire; consuming by fire; also fiery heat, inflammation, or ardent passion.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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)
Similar or of the same kind; in the same manner; likely; or, as a verb, to please.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828
A piece or fragment of a broken pot.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Impure or worthless matter separated from what is valuable, literally or as a figure.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Proverbs 26:24
Hates; regards with strong dislike, aversion, or enmity.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Places, sets, puts, applies, or imposes. In KJV phrases, it may mean stores up, reveals, brings low, grasps, regards, establishes, sets an ambush, or attacks.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 (facsimile-linked witness) · Strong's Exhaustive Concordance 1890 (occurrence-specific) · KJV usage (PCE)
Fraud, guile, or any word or practice intended to mislead another into believing what is false.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
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From verse 22
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Open the full verse study8The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
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Open the full verse study19He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.
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Open the full verse study9In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit lewdness.
From verse 23
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Open the full verse study47¶ And while he yet spake, behold a multitude, and he that was called Judas, one of the twelve, went before them, and drew near unto Jesus to kiss him.
48But Jesus said unto him, Judas, betrayest thou the Son of man with a kiss?
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Open the full verse study39And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness.
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Open the full verse study18He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.
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Open the full verse study31And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.
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Open the full verse study27Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.
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Open the full verse study4Take away the dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel for the finer.
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Open the full verse study9And Joab said to Amasa, Art thou in health, my brother? And Joab took Amasa by the beard with the right hand to kiss him.
10But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab’s hand: so he smote him therewith in the fifth rib, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck him not again; and he died. So Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.
From verse 24
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Open the full verse study20Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellers of peace is joy.
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Open the full verse study18He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.
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Open the full verse study6And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.
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Open the full verse study17He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit.
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Open the full verse study5The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.
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Open the full verse study8The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.
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Open the full verse study1A FALSE balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight.
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