KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Psalms 58:4–5
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Psalms 58:4
4Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
4†‖Their poison is like the poyson of a serpent; they are like the deafe adder that stoppeth her eare:
- Heb. according to the likenesse.
- Or, aspe.
Psalms 58:5
5Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
5‖Which will not hearken to the voyce of charmers, charming neuer so wisely.
- Or, be the charmest neuer so cunning.
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DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 58:4
A substance which, when taken into the stomach, mixed with the blood or applied to the skin or flesh, proves fatal or deleterious by an action not mechanical; venom.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Similar or of the same kind; in the same manner; likely; or, as a verb, to please.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828
Figuratively unresponsive or refusing to hear and heed, or likened to one who does not hear.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A venomous serpent called an adder in the KJV; the entry does not impose a particular modern species.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To close, block, obstruct, hinder, restrain, silence, or prevent from proceeding.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
The organ of hearing; also, the seed-bearing head of grain.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Psalms 58:5
To listen attentively, give heed, or obey.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Persons who charm or who practice enchantment.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Using a charm or enchantment.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Not ever; not at any time; in no case or degree.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Prudently; judiciously; discretely; with wisdom.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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From verse 4
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Open the full verse study8But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
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Open the full verse study3They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips. Selah.
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Open the full verse study11Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.
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Open the full verse study17For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the Lord.
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Open the full verse study13Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
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Open the full verse study33Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
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Open the full verse study8And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice’ den.
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Open the full verse study14Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
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Open the full verse study16He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.
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Open the full verse study33Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
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Open the full verse study7¶ But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
From verse 5
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Open the full verse study17For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the Lord.
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Open the full verse study11Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
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Open the full verse study3And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.
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