Ecclesiastes 5:4
When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.
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Defer
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Daniel 9:19
O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not, for thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people are called by thy name.
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אָחַר
ʼâchar · aw-khar'
2 times translated as this KJV form17 total Strong's occurrences
to loiter (i.e. be behind); by implication to procrastinate
Strong's KJV usage: continue, defer, delay, hinder, be late (slack), stay (there), tarry (longer).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Ecclesiastes 5:4Strong's last: Daniel 9:19
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ʼârak · aw-rak'
1 times translated as this KJV form34 total Strong's occurrences
to be (causative, make) long (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: defer, draw out, lengthen, (be, become, make, pro-) long, (out-, over-) live, tarry (long).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Isaiah 48:9Strong's last: Isaiah 48:9
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H309
When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.
H748
For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.
H309
O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not, for thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people are called by thy name.
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defer
DEFER, verb transitive [Latin To bear.]
1. To delay; to put off; to postpone to a future time; as, to defer the execution of a design.
When thou vowest a vow, defer not to pay it. Ecclesiastes 5:4.
Hope deferred maketh the heart sick. Proverbs 13:1.
2. To refer; to leave to anothers judgment and determination.
[In this sense, refer is now used.]
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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