King James Version
Proverbs 30:27 in the King James Version says “The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands; by: Heb. gathered together” — study this verse from Proverbs chapter 30 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands; by: Heb. gathered together”
Proverbs 30:27 · KJV
The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer;
The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks;
The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands; by: Heb. gathered together
The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings' palaces.
There be three things which go well, yea, four are comely in going:
KJV Study — Public Domain
“yet go they forth”
H3318to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim
“all of them by bands”
H2686properly, to chop into, pierce or sever; hence, to curtail, to distribute (into ranks); to shoot an arrow
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
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