KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Proverbs 30:23–26
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Proverbs 30:23
23For an odious woman when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.
23For an odious woman when shee is married, and an handmayd that is heire to her mistresse.
Proverbs 30:24
24There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise:
24†There be foure things which are little vpon the earth; but they are exceeding wise:
- Heb. wise made wise.
Proverbs 30:25
25The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer;
25*The Ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meate in the summer.
- Chap.6.7
Proverbs 30:26
26The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks;
26The conies are but a feeble folke, yet make they their houses in the rocks
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DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 30:23
Hateful, offensive, or deserving abhorrence.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604
Joined to a husband or wife in marriage.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A person entitled to inherit or succeed to the possession, estate, or place named.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A female master or woman having authority over a household, servants, or dependants; also a woman preeminent in the thing named.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Proverbs 30:24
The number following three and preceding five.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The ground or dry land; the world or inhabited realm; or a country and its people, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE)
But; marking a contrast or qualification in the sentence.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Going beyond; surpassing; excelling; outdoing. O glorious trial of exceeding love.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Having knowledge, discernment, sound judgment, prudence, or skill.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Proverbs 30:25
Small insects noted in Scripture for diligent preparation.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Persons collectively; a nation, community, or group considered as a body.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Having strength, power, firmness, endurance, influence, or the ability to resist and prevail.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To make all things ready; to put things in suitable order. Ina general sense, to fit, adapt or qualify for a particular purpose, end, use, service or state, by any means whatever.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
The warm season of the year.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 30:26
But; marking a contrast or qualification in the sentence.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Weak, lacking strength.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604
People in general, or any part of them without distinction.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To form, produce, cause, or carry out what the verse states.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Buildings or dwellings; also households, families, dynasties, or divisions descended from a common head.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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From verse 23
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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 study15A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
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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 study21He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become his son at the length.
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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.
From verse 24
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Open the full verse study7But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:
From verse 25
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Open the full verse study6¶ Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
7Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,
8Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
From verse 26
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Open the full verse study18The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks for the conies.
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Open the full verse study5And the coney, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.
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