KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Proverbs 27:25–27
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Proverbs 27:25
25The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.
25The hay appeareth, and the tender grasse sheweth it selfe, and herbes of the mountaines are gathered.
Proverbs 27:26
26The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of the field.
26The lambes are for thy clothing, and the goates are the price of thy field.
Proverbs 27:27
27And thou shalt have goats’ milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance for thy maidens.
27†And thou shalt haue goats milke enough for thy food, for the food of thy houshold, and for the maintenance for thy maidens.
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DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 27:25
Grass cut and dried for fodder; grass prepared for preservation.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Soft or delicate; young, weak, or not hardy; sensitive or responsive; compassionate or merciful, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
Low green herbage growing from the ground; by extension, plants used for pasture.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Shows, reveals, declares, or makes known.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The reflexive or emphatic pronoun referring to a thing already named.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To collect, bring together, or assemble.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828
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Proverbs 27:26
Garments or covering for the body; figuratively, that which covers or invests.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
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Proverbs 27:27
As much as is needed or sufficient for the thing named.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A family and those dwelling together in one house; also belonging to the home.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
maintenance
Support, sustenance, provision, protection, or the means of living.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Unmarried young women or female attendants.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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From verse 25
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Open the full verse study5He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.
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Open the full verse study14He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;
From verse 26
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Open the full verse study20If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
From verse 27
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Open the full verse study33But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
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Open the full verse study8Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
9Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
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