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Proverbs 30:23
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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.
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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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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.
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