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Proverbs 26:3
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Proverbs 26:3
3A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool’s back.
3*A whip for the horse, a bridle for the asse; and a rod for the fooles backe.
- Chap. 10.13. psal. 32.9.
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Proverbs 26:3
To strike with a lash or sweeping cord.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A large hoofed animal used for riding, drawing, work, and war.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The bit-and-rein equipment used to govern and restrain an animal.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A person lacking wisdom or moral understanding; as a verb, to act foolishly or deceive.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The rear part; a position or direction behind; or a return to a former place or condition, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
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Open the full verse study13In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.
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Open the full verse study21What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?
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Open the full verse study9Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.
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Open the full verse study6And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
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Open the full verse study2I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare:
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Open the full verse study5And he said unto the men of Succoth, Give, I pray you, loaves of bread unto the people that follow me; for they be faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian.
6¶ And the princes of Succoth said, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thine hand, that we should give bread unto thine army?
7And Gideon said, Therefore when the Lord hath delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into mine hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.
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Open the full verse study10A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.
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Open the full verse study25Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge.
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Open the full verse study29Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.
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Open the full verse study22Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
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