Matthew 23:14Mapped KJV word: for a pretence
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
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ORIGINAL WORD · STRONG’S
Open Bibleπρόφασις
G4392 · próphasis · prof'-as-is · Greek
Strong’s definition
an outward showing, i.e. pretext
KJV usage
:--cloke, colour, pretence, show.
7mapped occurrences
7verses
5KJV renderings
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KJV renderings in this mapping
for a pretence 2cloke 2for a shew 1colour 1pretence 1
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Mapped occurrences
Mark 12:40Mapped KJV word: for a pretence
Which devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation.
Luke 20:47Mapped KJV word: for a shew
Which devour widows' houses, and for a shew make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation.
John 15:22Mapped KJV word: cloke
If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin.
Acts 27:30Mapped KJV word: colour
And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship, when they had let down the boat into the sea, under colour as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship,
Philippians 1:18Mapped KJV word: pretence
What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence, or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.
1 Thessalonians 2:5Mapped KJV word: cloke
For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness: