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Psalms 64:3
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Psalms 64:3
3Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:
3*Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bowes to shoote their arrowes, euen bitter words:
- Psal.11.3.
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Psalms 64:3
To make the tongue and its bitter words keen and ready to wound like a sharpened sword.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The organ of speech; a language; speech or manner of speaking.
Meaning drawn from: 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
To curve, draw, or incline; especially to draw a bow by pulling its string, and figuratively to direct or incline something.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Curved weapons for shooting arrows; bendings or inclinations of the body; or, as a verb, bends, stoops, or submits, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828
To send out; to push forth. To push out; to emit; to dart; to thrust forth.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Pointed missiles shot from bows; figuratively, instruments or images of attack, judgment, pain, or sudden force, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Indeed or precisely; adding emphasis to what follows.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Sharp to the feeling; piercing; painful; that makes to smart.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Spoken or written expressions; sayings, messages, commands, promises, or accounts.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Open the full verse study6And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
7For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:
8But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
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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.
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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 study7Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
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Open the full verse study17¶ No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord.
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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 study2For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.
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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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