Ecclesiastes 4:5
The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.
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Foldeth
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Ecclesiastes 4:5
The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.
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חָבַק
châbaq · khaw-bak'
1 times translated as this KJV form14 total Strong's occurrences
to clasp (the hands or in embrace)
Strong's KJV usage: embrace, fold.
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The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.
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fold
FOLD, noun [See the verb, to fold ]
1. A pen or inclosure for sheep; a place where a flock of sheep is kept, whether in the field or under shelter.
2. A flock of sheep. Hence in a scriptural sense, the church, the flock of the Shepherd of Israel.
Other sheep I have, which are not of this fold John 10:16.
3. A limit. [Not in use.]
FOLD, noun
1. The doubling of any flexible substance, as cloth; complication; a plait; one part turned or bent and laid on another; as a fold of linen.
2. In composition, the same quantity added; as two fold four fold ten fold that is, twice as much, four times as much, ten times as much.
FOLD, verb transitive [Heb. The primary sense is to fall, or to lay, to set, throw or press together.]
1. To double; to lap or lay in plaits; as, to fold a piece of cloth.
2. To double and insert one part in another; as, to fold a letter.
3. To double or lay together, as the arms. He folds his arms in despair.
4. To confine sheep in a fold
FOLD, verb intransitive To close over another of the same kind; as, the leaves of the door fold
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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