KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Proverbs 6:4–5
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Proverbs 6:4
4Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
4Giue not sleepe to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
Proverbs 6:5
5Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
5Deliuer thy selfe as a Roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
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DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 6:4
To grant, hand, offer, supply, yield, or cause to have.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To rest in natural sleep; by figure, to be inactive or dead and at rest.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The organs of sight; by extension, sight, attention, judgment, or presence, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE)
To sleep lightly; to doze.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Proverbs 6:5
To rescue, set free, hand over, give up, or bring forth, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The swift deerlike creature called a roe in the KJV.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The part of the body at the end of the arm; figuratively, power, possession, aid, or agency.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A person who hunts or pursues game.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
One who hunts, catches, or traps birds.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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From verse 4
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Open the full verse study4I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids,
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Open the full verse study10Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
11So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
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Open the full verse study35Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning:
36Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.
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Open the full verse study10Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
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Open the full verse study17Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:
18Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.
From verse 5
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Open the full verse study3Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
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Open the full verse study7Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
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Open the full verse study17Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
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Open the full verse study1IN the Lord put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?
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