KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Proverbs 6:8–9
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Proverbs 6:8
8Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
8Prouideth her meat in the Summer, and gathereth her food in the haruest.
Proverbs 6:9
9How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
9*How long wilt thou sleepe, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleepe?
- Cha.13.4. and 20.4. and 24.33.
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DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 6:8
To consider beforehand; to make provision or take thought for.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
The warm season of the year.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Proverbs 6:9
Extending a great distance or duration; also to desire earnestly.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To will, choose, intend, or be disposed to; as an auxiliary, indicates future action.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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)
A person habitually lazy, idle and inactive; a drone.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To rise, stand up, come forth, or begin to act.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Outside, away from within, forth, absent, or no longer in a stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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From verse 8
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Open the full verse study5He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.
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Open the full verse study19Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
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Open the full verse study25The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer;
From verse 9
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Open the full verse study33Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
34So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.
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Open the full verse study8Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?
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Open the full verse study14Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
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Open the full verse study14O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
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Open the full verse study2For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
3For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
4But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
5Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
6Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
7For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
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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?
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Open the full verse study11And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
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Open the full verse study6¶ There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
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