KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Psalms 58:4–6
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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.
Psalms 58:6
6Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Lord.
6Breake their teeth, O God, in their mouth: breake out the great teeth of the young lyons, O LORD.
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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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Psalms 58:6
To separate, fracture, open, interrupt, violate, subdue, or burst forth, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
The hard structures in the mouth used for biting or chewing.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A deity or object of worship; when referring to the LORD, the one true God.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The opening used for eating and speaking; also an opening, edge, command, or testimony by extension.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Outside, away from within, forth, absent, or no longer in a stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Early in life or growth; not mature; also offspring, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Large powerful wild cats; also figures of strength, fierceness, danger, or royal power.
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
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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.
From verse 6
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Open the full verse study7Arise, O Lord; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.
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Open the full verse study14For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him.
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Open the full verse study17And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
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Open the full verse study10The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
11The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion’s whelps are scattered abroad.
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Open the full verse study8¶ And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver.
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Open the full verse study15Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.
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Open the full verse study12Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
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Open the full verse study21Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, lo, it shall not be bound up to be healed, to put a roller to bind it, to make it strong to hold the sword.
22Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong, and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.
23And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.
24And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand: but I will break Pharaoh’s arms, and he shall groan before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded man.
25But I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out upon the land of Egypt.
26And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them among the countries; and they shall know that I am the Lord.
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Open the full verse study4For thus hath the Lord spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the Lord of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.
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Open the full verse study24Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.
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Open the full verse study13Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.
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