Proverbs 6:8
Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
Prouideth her meat in the Summer, and gathereth her food in the haruest.
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Proverbs 6:8
Supplies or makes provision for.
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Sense 1: Food, nourishment, sustenance, or provision. Sense 2: Figuratively, that which nourishes or sustains.
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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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Sense 1: The warm season of the year. Sense 2: Fruit ripening or gathered in that season, or a dwelling used in it. Sense 3: As a verb, to pass that season in a place.
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6:6¶ Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
6:6¶ Goe to the Ant, thou sluggard, consider her wayes, and be wise.
6:7Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,
6:7Which hauing no guide, ouerseer, or ruler,
6:8Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
6:8Prouideth her meat in the Summer, and gathereth her food in the haruest.
Selected passage6:9How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
6:9*How long wilt thou sleepe, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleepe?
6:10Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
6:10 Yet a little sleepe, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleepe.
6:11So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
6:11So shall thy pouertie come as one that trauaileth, and thy want as an armed man.