KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Proverbs 31:2–3
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Proverbs 31:2
2What, my son? and what, the son of my womb? and what, the son of my vows?
2What, my sonne! and what, the sonne of my wombe! and what, the sonne of my vowes!
Proverbs 31:3
3Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.
3Giue not thy strength vnto women, nor thy wayes to that which destroyeth kings.
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DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 31:2
Solemn promises made to God; or, as a verb, makes such promises, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 31:3
To grant, hand, offer, supply, yield, or cause to have.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Power, force, firmness, ability, endurance, or that which gives support.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
destroyeth
To ruin, demolish, kill, consume, or bring to an end.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
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From verse 2
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Open the full verse study15Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.
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Open the full verse study11And she vowed a vow, and said, O Lord of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the Lord all the days of his life, and there shall no rasor come upon his head.
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Open the full verse study28Therefore also I have lent him to the Lord; as long as he liveth he shall be lent to the Lord. And he worshipped the Lord there.
From verse 3
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Open the full verse study17Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
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Open the full verse study26Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin.
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Open the full verse study26For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.
27Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
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Open the full verse study9Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
10Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;
11And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
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Open the full verse study1BUT king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;
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Open the full verse study11Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
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