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Proverbs 8:3

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She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors.
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  1. Job 29:7Rank 1 from verse 3
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    7When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!

  2. Acts 5:20Rank 2 from verse 3
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    20Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.

  3. John 18:20Rank 3 from verse 3
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    20Jesus answered him, I spake openly to the world; I ever taught in the synagogue, and in the temple, whither the Jews always resort; and in secret have I said nothing.

  4. Luke 14:21–23Rank 4 from verse 3
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    21So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.

    22And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room.

    23And 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.

  5. Matthew 22:9Rank 5 from verse 3
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    9Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.

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Proverbs 8:3

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gates

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Movable barriers and the entrances they close in walls, cities, courts, houses, or enclosed places; by extension, the city, jurisdiction, public place, or access represented by those entrances.

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coming

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Sense 1: Present-participial form of come: approaching or arriving. Sense 2: The act, time, or event of approaching or arriving.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

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2She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths.

3She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors.

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4Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man.

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