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Proverbs 5:13–21

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13And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
14I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
15¶ Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
16Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
17Let them be only thine own, and not strangers’ with thee.
18Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
19Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.
20And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
21For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his goings.
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Proverbs 5:13Cross-references · 4 ranked passages

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    8He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.

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    7Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.

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    18I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,

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    12And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;

    13And to esteem them very highly in love for their work’s sake. And be at peace among yourselves.

Proverbs 5:14Cross-references · 6 ranked passages

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    20He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.

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    6Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

    7Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

    8Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

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    10But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.

    11Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.

    12But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;

    13And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;

    14Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:

    15Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

    16But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man’s voice forbad the madness of the prophet.

    17These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.

    18For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.

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    11Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.

    12¶ My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.

    13They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.

    14I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall.

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    1AND Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.

    2And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.

    3And Israel joined himself unto Baal-peor: and the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel.

    4And the Lord said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the Lord against the sun, that the fierce anger of the Lord may be turned away from Israel.

    5And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that were joined unto Baal-peor.

    6¶ And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

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    7Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

    8Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.

    9Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.

    10But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.

    11Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.

    12These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

    13Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.

Proverbs 5:15Cross-references · 3 ranked passages

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    2Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

    3Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

    4The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.

    5Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.

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    4Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

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    18Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

    19Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.

Proverbs 5:16Cross-references · 7 ranked passages

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    3Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.

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    3Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

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    28Israel then shall dwell in safety alone: the fountain of Jacob shall be upon a land of corn and wine; also his heavens shall drop down dew.

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    60And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them.

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    21And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out.

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    9And he had thirty sons, and thirty daughters, whom he sent abroad, and took in thirty daughters from abroad for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years.

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    26Bless ye God in the congregations, even the Lord, from the fountain of Israel.

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Proverbs 5:18Cross-references · 4 ranked passages

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    9Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.

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    14¶ Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the Lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.

    15And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

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    15A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.

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    12A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.

Proverbs 5:19Cross-references · 7 ranked passages

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    3Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.

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    9My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice.

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    5Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.

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    14¶ Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.

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    15¶ Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.

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    17Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.

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    4And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him; but took the poor man’s lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.

Proverbs 5:20Cross-references · 7 ranked passages

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    24To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

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    5That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.

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    1BUT 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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    14The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the Lord shall fall therein.

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    27For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.

    28She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.

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    33Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.

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    16To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;

    17Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.

    18For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.

    19None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.

Proverbs 5:21Cross-references · 17 ranked passages

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    13Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

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    3The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.

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    19Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:

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    21For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.

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    2And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.

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    17For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.

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    24Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord.

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    4The Lord is in his holy temple, the Lord’s throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.

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    4Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?

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    168I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways are before thee.

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    9For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars.

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    10I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

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    16For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?

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    1O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.

    2Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.

    3Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.

    4For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether.

    5Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.

    6Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.

    7Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?

    8If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.

    9If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;

    10Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.

    11If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.

    12Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.

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    3Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

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    23And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.

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    18And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass;

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Proverbs 5:13

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obeyed

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Past-tense or past-participial form of obey (to comply with a command, heed authority, or submit).

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inclined

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Bent or turned toward something; disposed or moved in will, heart, attention, or direction.

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ear

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Sense 1: The organ of hearing. Sense 2: The seed-bearing head of grain.

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instructed

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Taught, trained, informed, directed, counselled, warned, or corrected concerning a matter.

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Proverbs 5:14

COMBINED MEANING

in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

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evil

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Sense 1: Moral wickedness, sin, wrong, or corruption. Sense 2: Harm, misery, calamity, adversity, or punishment.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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midst

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The middle, centre, interior, or intervening part of a place, body, company, or condition; among, within, surrounded by, or in the presence of persons or things.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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congregation

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1. A gathered assembly, company, or community of people, or the people considered together as a body. 2. In the fixed expressions "tabernacle of the congregation" and "tent of the congregation," part of the name of the appointed meeting place.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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assembly

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A company or congregation gathered together; the act, occasion, or appointed meeting of gathering, whether common, civil, military, or solemn.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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Proverbs 5:15

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out

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Outside, away from within, forth, absent, or no longer in a stated condition.

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cistern

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A reservoir, pit, or receptacle made to collect and hold water.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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running

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That which runs or flows; the act of running or passing with speed; the discharge of an ulcer or other sore.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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Proverbs 5:16

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let

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Sense 1: To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain. Sense 2: To lower or send down.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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dispersed

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of disperse, meaning to scatter, spread, distribute, or send persons or things apart among different places, peoples, or hearers.

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abroad

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Out of doors or away from one’s usual place; outward, away, or throughout a wide area.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893

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in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

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Proverbs 5:17

COMBINED MEANING

let

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Sense 1: To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain. Sense 2: To lower or send down.

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Proverbs 5:18

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let

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Sense 1: To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain. Sense 2: To lower or send down.

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blessed

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1. Favoured by God, endowed with good, or declared happy. 2. Spoke good of, praised, thanked, or bestowed a blessing upon.

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rejoice

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1. To be glad, take joy, delight, or exult; to express gladness. 2. To make glad or cause to rejoice.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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youth

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Sense 1: The period of life following childhood and preceding mature age. Sense 2: A young person or young people.

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Proverbs 5:19

COMBINED MEANING

let

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Sense 1: To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain. Sense 2: To lower or send down.

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loving

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Present-participial or verbal-noun form of love, meaning to regard with affection or devotion.

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breasts

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Plural form of breast (the front part of the body between the neck and the belly).

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satisfy

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To gratify wants, wishes or desires to the full extent; to supply possession or enjoyment till no more is desired.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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thou

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The singular second-person subject pronoun, meaning you when directly addressing one person, being, or individually treated addressee.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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ravished

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Carried away or overcome by love or delight; in contexts of violence, sexually violated by force.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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love

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Sense 1: Affection, attachment, delight, goodwill, commitment, or devotion. Sense 2: To regard with affection or devotion. Sense 3: A beloved person.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references

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Proverbs 5:20

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wilt

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Sense 1: Second-person singular present form of will: choosest, intendest, or art disposed to. Sense 2: As an auxiliary, marks future action.

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thou

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The singular second-person subject pronoun, meaning you when directly addressing one person, being, or individually treated addressee.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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son

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1. A male child or descendant. 2. One belonging to, related to, or characterized by the person, people, place, condition, or quality named.

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ravished

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Carried away or overcome by love or delight; in contexts of violence, sexually violated by force.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

strange

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Foreign; belonging to another country. Wonderful; causing surprise; exciting curiosity.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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Proverbs 5:21

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for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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man

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1. A human being or person. 2. Mankind collectively. 3. A male person.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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before

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Earlier than in time; in front of; in the presence of; or prior in order or rank.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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eyes

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The bodily organs of sight; by extension, sight, attention, observation, perception, understanding, desire, judgment, estimation, favour, or the presence and view before which something occurs.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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5:3¶ For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:

5:4But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.

5:5Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

5:6Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.

5:7Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

5:8Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:

5:9Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:

5:10Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;

5:11And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,

5:12And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

5:13And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!

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5:14I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.

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5:15¶ Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.

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5:16Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.

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5:17Let them be only thine own, and not strangers’ with thee.

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5:18Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

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5:19Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.

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5:20And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

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5:21For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his goings.

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