King James Version
Proverbs 1:13 in the King James Version says “We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:” — study this verse from Proverbs chapter 1 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:”
Proverbs 1:13 · KJV
If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“We shall find”
H4672properly, to come forth to, i.e., appear or exist; transitively, to attain, i.e., find or acquire; figuratively, to occur, meet or be present
“we shall fill”
H4390to fill or (intransitively) be full of, in a wide application (literally and figuratively)
“our houses”
H1004a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
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