KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Proverbs 7:17–18
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Proverbs 7:17
17I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
17I haue perfumed my bed with myrrhe, aloes, and cynamom.
Proverbs 7:18
18Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.
18Come, let vs take our fill of loue vntill the morning, let vs solace our selues with loues.
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DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 7:17
Scented; impregnated with fragrant odors.
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)
A bitter, strongly fragrant gum-resin used as a spice, perfume, medicinal mixture, gift, or burial preparation.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A fragrant wood or aromatic substance named with myrrh and other spices; the KJV does not identify its exact botanical source.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The fragrant aromatic bark or spice called cinnamon in the KJV.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Proverbs 7:18
To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
To receive, seize, carry, accept, choose, or lay hold of, with the exact sense determined by context.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
To make full, supply to capacity, satisfy, occupy, or complete what is lacking, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
Affection, goodwill, devoted regard, or charity; as a verb, to regard with such affection or goodwill.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Comfort, relief, or consolation in sorrow or distress.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The reflexive or emphatic pronoun referring to the speaker together with others.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Regards with affection, goodwill, or devoted care; or instances and objects of such affection.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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From verse 17
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Open the full verse study8All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.
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Open the full verse study7Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.
8Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself to another than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest it.
9And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase thyself even unto hell.
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Open the full verse study23Take thou also unto thee principal spices, of pure myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty shekels, and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty shekels,
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Open the full verse study6¶ Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?
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Open the full verse study13Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard,
14Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices:
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