KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Proverbs 31:18–19
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Proverbs 31:18
18She perceiveth that her merchandise is good: her candle goeth not out by night.
18†She perceiueth that her merchandise is good; her candle goeth not out by night.
- Hebr. she tasteth.
Proverbs 31:19
19She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff.
19She layeth her handes to the spindle, and her handes hold the distaffe.
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DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 31:18
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
merchandise
Goods bought and sold; trade or commerce.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
That which is right, beneficial, pleasing, useful, or morally upright.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A portable wick light or lamp.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Outside, away from within, forth, absent, or no longer in a stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Proverbs 31:19
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)
The end parts of the arms used for holding and working; also figures of power, possession, agency, or aid.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A slender hand-held rod or pin used for twisting fibres into thread and winding the spun thread.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To grasp, keep, possess, restrain, maintain, regard, or account, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The staff of a spinning-wheel, to which a bunch of flax or tow is tied, and from which the thread is drawn.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 18
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Open the full verse study9For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
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Open the full verse study3They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:
4But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
5While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
6And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.
7Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.
8And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.
9But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.
10And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.
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Open the full verse study7For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;
8Neither did we eat any man’s bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you:
9Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.
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Open the full verse study40Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
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Open the full verse study2It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
From verse 19
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Open the full verse study25And all the women that were wise hearted did spin with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, both of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine linen.
26And all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun goats’ hair.
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