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Proverbs 7:21
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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 7:21
A great quantity or degree; abundant in amount.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890 · Webster 1828
Spoken words; discourse, language, or an address.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 · KJV usage
Produced; effected; brought about.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890
To produce or give forth; to give, surrender, submit, grant, or allow, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 · KJV usage
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
flattering
Pleasing to pride or vanity; gratifying to self-love.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage
Compelled, driven, constrained, pressed, or carried out by force.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890
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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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