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Proverbs 7:12

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Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
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  1. Proverbs 23:28Rank 1 from verse 12
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    28She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.

  2. Proverbs 9:14Rank 2 from verse 12
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    14For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,

  3. Revelation 18:3Rank 3 from verse 12
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    3For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.

  4. Ezekiel 16:24–25Rank 4 from verse 12
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    24That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street.

    25Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms.

  5. Ezekiel 16:31Rank 5 from verse 12
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    31In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as an harlot, in that thou scornest hire;

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Proverbs 7:12

COMBINED MEANING

without

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Outside or on the exterior; beyond a boundary; lacking, absent, free from, not accompanied by, or apart from the person, thing, condition, means, or relation named.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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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.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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wait

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Sense 1: To remain in expectation or readiness. Sense 2: To attend or serve. Sense 3: As a noun, an ambush or concealed watch.

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

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every

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Each individual or member of the class, group, place, time, side, or kind named; all distributively.

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

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11(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:

12Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)

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13So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,

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