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Proverbs 4:13
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Proverbs 4:13
13Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.
13Take fast hold of instruction, let her not goe; keepe her, for she is thy life.
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DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 4:13
To receive, seize, carry, accept, choose, or lay hold of, with the exact sense determined by context.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
Firm, fixed, or secure; moving quickly; also an abstinence from food or the act of abstaining.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828
To grasp, keep, possess, restrain, maintain, regard, or account, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
instruction
Teaching, correction, discipline, or precepts that impart wisdom and direct conduct.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
To hold, preserve, guard, observe, maintain, restrain, or continue, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The state of living; the period or manner of one's existence.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study1THEREFORE we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
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Open the full verse study23Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
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Open the full verse study18She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.
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Open the full verse study21Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
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Open the full verse study47For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
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Open the full verse study23Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord.
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Open the full verse study42And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
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Open the full verse study68Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.
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Open the full verse study12For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.
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Open the full verse study11And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
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Open the full verse study13I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan’s seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth.
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Open the full verse study4It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.
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Open the full verse study26And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
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Open the full verse study27And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
28And they drew nigh unto the village, whither they went: and he made as though he would have gone further.
29But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent. And he went in to tarry with them.
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Open the full verse study22So shall they be life unto thy soul, and grace to thy neck.
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Open the full verse study39¶ And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did.
40So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days.
41And many more believed because of his own word;
42And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.
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