Proverbs 11:25
The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.
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Liberal
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2 Corinthians 9:13
Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution unto them, and unto all men;
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נָדִיב
nâdîyb · naw-deeb'
2 times translated as this KJV form28 total Strong's occurrences
properly, voluntary, i.e. generous; hence, magnanimous; as noun, a grandee (sometimes a tyrant)
Strong's KJV usage: free, liberal (things), noble, prince, willing (hearted).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Isaiah 32:5Strong's last: Isaiah 32:8
Open full H5081 profile →ἁπλότης
haplótēs · hap-lot'-ace
1 times translated as this KJV form8 total Strong's occurrences
singleness, i.e. (subjectively) sincerity (without dissimulation or self-seeking), or (objectively) generosity (copious bestowal)
Strong's KJV usage: :--bountifulness, liberal(-ity), simplicity, singleness.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Corinthians 9:13Strong's last: 2 Corinthians 9:13
Open full G572 profile →בְּרָכָה
Bᵉrâkâh · ber-aw-kaw'
1 times translated as this KJV form69 total Strong's occurrences
benediction; by implication prosperity
Strong's KJV usage: blessing, liberal, pool, present.
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Strong's first: Proverbs 11:25Strong's last: Proverbs 11:25
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Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution unto them, and unto all men;
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liberal
LIB'ERAL, adjective [Latin liberalis, from liber, free. See Libe.]
1. Of a free heart; free to give or bestow; not close or contracted; munificent; bountiful; generous; giving largely; as a liberal donor; the liberal founders of a college or hospital. It expresses less than profuse or extravagant.
2. Generous; ample; large; as a liberal donation; a liberal allowance.
3. Not selfish, narrow on contracted; catholic; enlarged; embracing other interests than one's own; as liberal sentiments or views; a liberal mind; liberal policy.
4. General; extensive; embracing literature and the sciences generally; as a liberal education. This phrase is often but not necessarily synonymous with collegiate; as a collegiate education.
5. Free; open; candid; as a liberal communication of thoughts.
6. Large; profuse; as a liberal discharge of matter by secretions or excretions.
7. Free; not literal or strict; as a liberal construction of law.
8. Not mean; not low in birth or mind.
9. Licentious; free to excess.
Liberal arts, as distinguished from mechanical arts, are such as depend more on the exertion of the mind than on the labor of the hands, and regard amusement, curiosity or intellectual improvement, rather than the necessity of subsistence, or manual skill. Such are grammar, rhetoric, painting, sculpture, architecture, music. etc.
Liberal has of before the thing bestowed, and to before the person or object on which any thing is bestowed; as, to be liberal of praise or censure; liberal to the poor.
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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