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Proverbs 4:5
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Proverbs 4:5
5Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.
5Get wisedome, get vnderstanding: forget it not, neither decline from the wordes of my mouth.
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DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 4:5
To procure; to obtain; to gain possession of, by almost any means.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Sound judgment and the right use of knowledge; skill, discernment, or understanding.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
understanding
Discernment, intelligence, comprehension, or the faculty of knowing.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To fail or cease to remember; to lose from mind; to neglect or disregard.
Meaning drawn from: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance 1890 (occurrence-specific) · KJV usage (PCE)
To turn aside, bend downward, refuse, or fall away, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Bullokar 1616 · Cawdrey 1604 · Skeat 1893
Spoken or written expressions; sayings, messages, commands, promises, or accounts.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The opening used for eating and speaking; also an opening, edge, command, or testimony by extension.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study5If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
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Open the full verse study13¶ Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.
14For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
15She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.
16Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour.
17Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
18She 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 study2And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the ways of David his father, and declined neither to the right hand, nor to the left.
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Open the full verse study22How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
23Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
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Open the full verse study18Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;
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Open the full verse study11My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.
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Open the full verse study16Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it?
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Open the full verse study5O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.
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Open the full verse study8He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul: he that keepeth understanding shall find good.
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Open the full verse study16How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!
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Open the full verse study1THROUGH desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.
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Open the full verse study2So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;
3Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;
4If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;
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Open the full verse study157Many are my persecutors and mine enemies; yet do I not decline from thy testimonies.
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Open the full verse study51The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law.
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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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