Proverbs 9:16
Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
Who so is simple, let him turne in hither: and as for him that wanteth vnderstanding, she saith to him;
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Proverbs 9:16
Without guile; sincere or harmless; in other contexts, lacking wisdom or understanding.
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Sense 1: To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain. Sense 2: To lower or send down.
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Sense 1: To change direction, position, condition, purpose, or allegiance; to cause such a change. Sense 2: One’s time or occasion in an order or succession.
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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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To or toward this place or direction; in “hither and thither,” this way and that.
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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.
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Third-person singular present form of want, meaning to lack, be without, need, or come short of it.
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understanding
1. The capacity or act of perceiving, comprehending, discerning, judging, interpreting, or applying knowledge. 2. Knowledge, insight, wisdom, or prudent judgment possessed or gained. 3. Skill or ability in a work, art, subject, vision, saying, or interpretation.
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9:13¶ A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.
9:13¶ *A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, & knoweth nothing.
9:14For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,
9:14For she sitteth at the doore of her house on a seate, in the high places of the Citie:
9:15To call passengers who go right on their ways:
9:15To call passengers who go right on their wayes:
9:16Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
9:16Who so is simple, let him turne in hither: and as for him that wanteth vnderstanding, she saith to him;
Selected passage9:17Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
9:17†Stollen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
9:18But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.
9:18But hee knoweth not that the dead are there, and that her guests are in the depths of hell.