Proverbs 20:17
Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
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Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
Read in context →He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
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châtsâts · khaw-tsawts'
properly, something cutting; hence, gravel (as grit); an arrow
Strong's KJV usage: arrow, gravel (stone).
Strong's first: Proverbs 20:17Strong's last: Proverbs 20:17
Open full H2687 profile →mêʻâh · may-aw'
the belly, i.e. (figuratively) interior
Strong's KJV usage: gravel.
Strong's first: Isaiah 48:19Strong's last: Isaiah 48:19
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Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.
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GRAV'EL, noun
1. Small stones or fragments of stone, or very small pebbles, larger than the particles of sand, but often intermixed with them.
2. In medicine, small calculous concretions in the kidneys and bladder.
GRAV'EL, verb transitive To cover with gravel; as, to gravel a walk.
1. To stick in the sand.
2. To puzzle; to stop; to embarrass.
3. To hurt the foot of a horse, by gravel lodged under the shoe.
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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