Proverbs 18:11
The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit.
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Conceit
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Proverbs 28:11
The rich man is wise in his own conceit; but the poor that hath understanding searcheth him out.
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עַיִן
ʻayin · ah'-yin
4 times translated as this KJV form839 total Strong's occurrences
an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
Strong's KJV usage: affliction, outward appearance, before, think best, colour, conceit, be content, countenance, displease, eye((-brow), (-d), -sight), face, favour, fountain, furrow (from the margin), × him, humble, knowledge, look, ( well), × me, open(-ly), (not) please, presence, regard, resemblance, sight, × thee, × them, think, × us, well, × you(-rselves).
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Strong's first: Proverbs 26:5Strong's last: Proverbs 28:11
Open full H5869 profile →מַשְׂכִּית
maskîyth · mas-keeth'
1 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
a figure (carved on stone, the wall, or any object); figuratively, imagination
Strong's KJV usage: conceit, image(-ry), picture, × wish.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Proverbs 18:11Strong's last: Proverbs 18:11
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The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit.
H5869
Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.
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Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
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The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.
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The rich man is wise in his own conceit; but the poor that hath understanding searcheth him out.
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conceit
CONCEIT, noun [Latin , to take or seize.]
1. Conception; that which is conceived, imagined, or formed in the mind; idea; thought; image.
In laughing there ever precedeth a conceit of somewhat ridiculous, and therefore it is proper to man.
2. Understanding; power or faculty of conceiving; apprehension; as a man of quick conceit [Nearly antiquated.]
How often did her eyes say to me, that they loved! Yet I, not looking for such a matter, had not my conceit open to understand them.
3. Opinion; notion; fancy; imagination; fantastic notion; as a strange or odd conceit
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him. Proverbs 26:5.
4. Pleasant fancy; gayety of imagination.
On the way to the gibbet, a freak took him in the head to go off with a conceit
5. A striking thought; affected or unnatural conception.
Some to conceit alone their works confine.
6. Favorable or self-flattering opinion; a lofty or vain conception of ones own person or accomplishments.
By a little study and a great conceit of himself, he has lost his religion.
Out of conceit with, not having a favorable opinion of; no longer pleased with; as, a man is out of conceit with his dress. Hence to put one out of conceit with, is to make him indifferent to a thing, or in a degree displeased with it.
CONCEIT, verb transitive To conceive; to imagine; to think; to fancy.
The strong, by conceiting themselves weak, thereby rendered inactive.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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