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Proverbs 7:16
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Proverbs 7:16
16I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.
16I haue deckt my bed with couerings of tapestrie, with carued workes, with fine linnen of Egypt.
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DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 7:16
Covered; adorned; furnished with a deck.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A place for rest or sleep; also the marriage bed or a place in which something lies. As a verb, to place or lie in a bed.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Woven or ornamental fabric used as a covering, especially for a bed.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Cut, shaped, or engraved into a form, figure, image, or ornamental work.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Acts, deeds, labours, or things produced; also acts or operates.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Pure or refined; of excellent quality; also a payment imposed as a penalty, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Bullokar 1616 · Skeat 1893
Cloth made of flax or hemp. Resembling linen cloth; white; pale.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
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Open the full verse study9Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded.
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Open the full verse study7Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee.
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Open the full verse study28¶ And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king’s merchants received the linen yarn at a price.
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Open the full verse study22She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple.
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Open the full verse study22Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.
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Open the full verse study7Behold his bed, which is Solomon’s; threescore valiant men are about it, of the valiant of Israel.
8They all hold swords, being expert in war: every man hath his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night.
9King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon.
10He made the pillars thereof of silver, the bottom thereof of gold, the covering of it of purple, the midst thereof being paved with love, for the daughters of Jerusalem.
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Open the full verse study16Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is green.
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