KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Proverbs 7:18–21
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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.
Proverbs 7:19
19For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:
19For the good-man is not at home, he is gone a long iourney.
Proverbs 7:20
20He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.
20†‖He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.
- Heb. in his hand.
- Or, the New moone.
Proverbs 7:21
21With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
21With much faire speech she caused him to yeeld, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
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DEFINED WORDS
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)
DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 7:19
The master or head of a household.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
One's dwelling or native place; toward or at that place.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Departed, went away, passed, or advanced to another place or condition.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Extending a great distance or duration; also to desire earnestly.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Travel by land to any distance and for any time, indefinitely.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 7:20
Received, seized, carried, accepted, captured, chosen, or laid hold of, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A flexible container or pouch used to carry or hold something.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Coin or another medium of payment; wealth in spendable form.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
One's dwelling or native place; toward or at that place.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The period of light between morning and evening; a complete daily cycle; or a specified time, age, or season, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Fixed; set; established; decreed; ordained; constituted; allotted; Furnished; equipped with things necessary.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 7:21
A great quantity or degree; abundant in amount.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Spoken words; discourse, language, or an address.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Produced; effected; brought about.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To produce or give forth; to give, surrender, submit, grant, or allow, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
flattering
Pleasing to pride or vanity; gratifying to self-love.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Compelled, driven, constrained, pressed, or carried out by force.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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From verse 19
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Open the full verse study45But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken;
46The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.
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Open the full verse study11And when they had received it, they murmured against the goodman of the house,
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Open the full verse study39And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.
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Open the full verse study34For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch.
35Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning:
36Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.
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Open the full verse study43But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
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Open the full verse study48But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
From verse 20
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Open the full verse study4Behold, I build an house to the name of the Lord my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him sweet incense, and for the continual shewbread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts of the Lord our God. This is an ordinance for ever to Israel.
From verse 21
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Open the full verse study3¶ For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
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Open the full verse study5That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
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Open the full verse study8¶ And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread.
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Open the full verse study29But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent. And he went in to tarry with them.
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Open the full verse study2They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
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Open the full verse study14For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
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Open the full verse study15¶ And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thine heart is not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth.
16And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death;
17That he told her all his heart, and said unto her, There hath not come a rasor upon mine head; for I have been a Nazarite unto God from my mother’s womb: if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man.
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Open the full verse study24To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
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Open the full verse study23But he refused, and said, I will not eat. But his servants, together with the woman, compelled him; and he hearkened unto their voice. So he arose from the earth, and sat upon the bed.
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Open the full verse study15And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us.
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Open the full verse study23And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.
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