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Proverbs 7:2–5
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Proverbs 7:2
2Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
2*Keepe my commandements, and liue: and my law as the apple of thine eye.
- Deut.6.8. & 11.18. chap.3.3.
Proverbs 7:3
3Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
3Bind them vpon thy fingers, write them vpon the table of thine heart.
Proverbs 7:4
4Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:
4Say vnto Wisedome, Thou art my sister, and call Understanding thy kinse woman,
Proverbs 7:5
5That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
5*That they may keepe thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
- Chap.5.3.
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DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 7:2
To hold, preserve, guard, observe, maintain, restrain, or continue, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
commandments
Authoritative commands, laws, or precepts; especially commands given by God, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Having life; having respiration and other organic functions in operation, or in a capacity to operate; not dead; Having vegetable life; to continue in constantly or habitually.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
A rule, command, or body of commands established by authority; especially God's commandments or the law given through Moses, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The fruit of a tree; in the phrase apple of the eye, the pupil or something precious.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The organ of sight; also to look upon or observe attentively.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 7:3
To tie together, or confine with a cord, or any thing that is flexible; to fasten as with a band, fillet or ligature.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To perform the act of forming characters, letters or figures, as representatives of sounds or ideas. To send letters.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
A flat surface or board; a place for food; a written tablet or list, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The bodily organ; more often in Scripture, the inward person—the mind, will, affections, conscience, or moral character—according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 7:4
To speak, declare, tell, or express; also what is said.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Sound judgment and the right use of knowledge; skill, discernment, or understanding.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To name, summon, invite, proclaim, address, or request, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
understanding
Discernment, intelligence, comprehension, or the faculty of knowing.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A female relation.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 7:5
To hold, preserve, guard, observe, maintain, restrain, or continue, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Foreign; belonging to another country. Wonderful; causing surprise; exciting curiosity.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
flattereth
To praise insincerely or deceitfully in order to please, influence, or mislead.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Spoken or written expressions; sayings, messages, commands, promises, or accounts.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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From verse 2
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Open the full verse study8Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,
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Open the full verse study3And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
4He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
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Open the full verse study5Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the Lord.
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Open the full verse study4He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.
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Open the full verse study1WHOSOEVER believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.
2By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
3For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
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Open the full verse study21He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
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Open the full verse study10He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
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Open the full verse study3Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
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Open the full verse study49For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
50And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.
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Open the full verse study14Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
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Open the full verse study13Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.
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Open the full verse study8For thus saith the Lord of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.
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Open the full verse study14Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
From verse 3
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Open the full verse study18¶ Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.
19And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
20And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates:
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Open the full verse study3Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
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Open the full verse study8And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.
9And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
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Open the full verse study33But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
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Open the full verse study3Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
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Open the full verse study8¶ Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:
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Open the full verse study21Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.
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Open the full verse study1THE sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;
From verse 4
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Open the full verse study2So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;
3Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;
4If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;
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Open the full verse study6Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.
7Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
8Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.
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Open the full verse study14I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
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Open the full verse study1O THAT thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, I should not be despised.
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Open the full verse study27¶ And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked.
28But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.
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Open the full verse study49And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren!
50For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.
From verse 5
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Open the full verse study16To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
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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 study3¶ For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
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