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Psalms 52:2
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Psalms 52:2
2Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp rasor, working deceitfully.
2Thy tongue deuiseth mischiefes: like a sharpe rasor, working deceitfully.
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DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 52:2
The organ of speech; a language; speech or manner of speaking.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Devises; plans, contrives, or purposes in the mind.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828
Harm; hurt; injury; damage; evil, whether intended or not.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Similar or of the same kind; in the same manner; likely; or, as a verb, to please.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828
Having a keen edge or point; acute, piercing, severe, or ready, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
deceitfully
A deceitful manner; fraudulently; with deceit; in a manner or with a view to deceive.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study21Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
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Open the full verse study16¶ These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
17A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
18An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
19A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
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Open the full verse study18There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
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Open the full verse study4My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
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Open the full verse study3And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the Lord.
4Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.
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Open the full verse study7Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?
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Open the full verse study13For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
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Open the full verse study2But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.
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Open the full verse study1AND after five days Ananias the high priest descended with the elders, and with a certain orator named Tertullus, who informed the governor against Paul.
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Open the full verse study5For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:
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Open the full verse study11Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God.
12And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon him, and caught him, and brought him to the council,
13And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:
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Open the full verse study18¶ Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
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Open the full verse study59Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death;
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Open the full verse study14There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
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Open the full verse study2For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
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Open the full verse study2Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.
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Open the full verse study2Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war.
3They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips. Selah.
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Open the full verse study19Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
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Open the full verse study2Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:
3Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:
4That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.
5They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?
6They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.
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Open the full verse study10And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
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