KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Proverbs 9:9–14
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Proverbs 9:9
9Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
9Giue instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a iust man, and he will increase in learning.
Proverbs 9:10
10The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
10*The feare of the LORD is the beginning of wisedome: and the knowledge of the holy is vnderstanding.
- Iob.28.28. psal.111.10. chap. 1.7.
Proverbs 9:11
11For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.
11*For by me thy dayes shall be multiplied: and the yeeres of thy life shalbe increased.
- Chap. 10.7.
Proverbs 9:12
12If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.
12If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thy selfe: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt beare it.
Proverbs 9:13
13¶ A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.
13¶ *A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, & knoweth nothing.
- Chap.7.11.
Proverbs 9:14
14For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,
14For she sitteth at the doore of her house on a seate, in the high places of the Citie:
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DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 9:9
To grant, hand, offer, supply, yield, or cause to have.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
instruction
Teaching, correction, discipline, or precepts that impart wisdom and direct conduct.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Having knowledge, discernment, sound judgment, prudence, or skill.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A human being; an adult male; a person, husband, servant, or representative, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Having greater wisdom, discernment, or sound judgment.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To instruct, inform, train, show, counsel, or communicate knowledge or doctrine.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
In a moral sense, upright; honest; having principles of rectitude; or conforming exactly to the laws, and to principles of rectitude in social conduct; equitable in the distribution of justice.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Growth or addition in number, amount, strength, or fruitfulness; as a verb, to become or make greater.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Knowledge or instruction acquired by study, teaching, or experience.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 9:10
Alarm or dread; reverent awe; as a verb, to be afraid, revere, or cause fear.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
LORD: The name of God the Father in English, from the Hebrew Tetragrammaton YHWH, also rendered GOD and JEHOVAH. Lord: A title applied to God and Christ as ruler and master, the one to whom worship and obedience are due. lord: A male master, owner, ruler, or superior addressed or described as one having authority.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
That which is first; the first state; commencement; entrance into being. The first cause; origin.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
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)
Understanding or awareness gained by knowing; recognition; what is known.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Belonging to God or set apart for him; sacred; morally pure. Applied to God, it expresses his perfect purity; in Holy Ghost or Holy Spirit, it identifies the Spirit of God.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
understanding
Discernment, intelligence, comprehension, or the faculty of knowing.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 9:11
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
multiplied
Increased in numbers.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Periods of twelve months.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The state of living; the period or manner of one's existence.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Augmented; made or grown larger.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 9:12
Having knowledge, discernment, sound judgment, prudence, or skill.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
But; marking a contrast or qualification in the sentence.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Scorns; mocks, despises, or treats with contempt.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Separately; by itself.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
To carry, support, endure, produce, bring forth, or sustain, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 9:13
Lacking wisdom or sound judgment; acting without proper regard for truth or what is right.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Crying out or exclaiming.
Meaning drawn from: Bullokar 1616
Without guile; sincere or harmless; in other contexts, lacking wisdom or understanding.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
No thing; not anything; of no value or effect.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 9:14
A building or dwelling; the people of a household or family; a lineage or family line; as a verb, to shelter, lodge, or provide a dwelling for.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The place of sitting; throne; chair of state; tribunal; post of authority. That on which one sits: a chair, bench, stool or any other thing on which a person sits.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Raised or far above; great in height, rank, degree, or importance; as an adverb, greatly or aloft.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Locations, positions, rooms, occasions, offices, or passages, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 9
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Open the full verse study5A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
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Open the full verse study13These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
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Open the full verse study11He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
12For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.
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Open the full verse study20But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.
21I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.
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Open the full verse study12As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear.
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Open the full verse study3Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.
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Open the full verse study18But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.
From verse 10
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Open the full verse study10The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.
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Open the full verse study28And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
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Open the full verse study7¶ The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
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Open the full verse study13¶ Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
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Open the full verse study5Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.
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Open the full verse study20And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
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Open the full verse study3And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
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Open the full verse study9¶ And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.
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Open the full verse study3I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy.
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Open the full verse study27All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
From verse 11
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Open the full verse study27The fear of the Lord prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.
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Open the full verse study2For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.
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Open the full verse study16Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour.
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Open the full verse study2That thou mightest fear the Lord thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son’s son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.
From verse 12
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Open the full verse study2Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?
3Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?
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Open the full verse study3Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
4And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
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Open the full verse study20The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
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Open the full verse study21Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.
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Open the full verse study26He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.
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Open the full verse study16As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
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Open the full verse study22Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord God of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.
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Open the full verse study6If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
7If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?
From verse 13
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Open the full verse study11(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
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Open the full verse study6Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.
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Open the full verse study4He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,
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Open the full verse study19It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.
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Open the full verse study9It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
From verse 14
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Open the full verse study3She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city,
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Open the full verse study10And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.
11(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
12Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
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