KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Proverbs 6:26–28
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Proverbs 6:26
26For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.
26†For by meanes of a whorish woman, a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteresse will hunt for the precious life.
- Heb. the woman of a man, or a mans wife.
Proverbs 6:27
27Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?
27Can a man take fire in his bosome, and his clothes not be burnt?
Proverbs 6:28
28Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?
28Can one goe vpon hote coales, and his feete not be burnt?
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DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 6:26
Lewd; unchaste; addicted to unlawful sexual pleasures; incontinent.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A human being; an adult male; a person, husband, servant, or representative, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
adulteress
A woman guilty of adultery or sexual unfaithfulness to marriage.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To pursue or search for, especially game, in order to catch or kill.
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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Proverbs 6:27
A human being; an adult male; a person, husband, servant, or representative, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To receive, seize, carry, accept, choose, or lay hold of, with the exact sense determined by context.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
Flame and burning heat; figuratively, fiery trial, judgment, zeal, or anger; to kindle or burn.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Garments, dress, or cloth coverings and wrappings worn on or around the body.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 (facsimile-linked witness) · Strong's Exhaustive Concordance 1890 (occurrence-specific) · KJV usage (PCE)
Consumed with fire; scorched or dried with fire or heat; baked or hardened in the fire.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
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Proverbs 6:28
The number one; a single person or thing; the same or united as a whole.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Having great heat; also ardent, vehement, or eager.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Pieces of wood or other combustible matter that are burning, ignited, or charred.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Consumed with fire; scorched or dried with fire or heat; baked or hardened in the fire.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
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From verse 26
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Open the full verse study30But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.
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Open the full verse study3Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance.
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Open the full verse study36And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left in thine house shall come and crouch to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee, into one of the priests’ offices, that I may eat a piece of bread.
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Open the full verse study14That she called unto the men of her house, and spake unto them, saying, See, he hath brought in an Hebrew unto us to mock us; he came in unto me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice:
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Open the full verse study18And say, Thus saith the Lord God; Woe to the women that sew pillows to all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon the head of every stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and will ye save the souls alive that come unto you?
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Open the full verse study8Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because ye have spoken vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, saith the Lord God.
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Open the full verse study13And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
14And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.
15And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
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Open the full verse study8Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath.
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Open the full verse study10Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;
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Open the full verse study23Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
From verse 27
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Open the full verse study9If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour’s door;
10Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.
11For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.
12For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
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Open the full verse study4They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.
5In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.
6For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.
7They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me.
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Open the full verse study5Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
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