Proverbs 17:9
He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
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He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
Read in context →He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
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shânâh · shaw-naw'
to fold, i.e. duplicate (literally or figuratively); by implication, to transmute (transitive or intransitive)
Strong's KJV usage: do (speak, strike) again, alter, double, (be given to) change, disguise, (be) diverse, pervert, prefer, repeat, return, do the second time.
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He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
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REPE'AT, verb transitive [Latin repeto; re and peto, to make at or drive towards. this verb ought to be written repete, in analogy with compete, and with repetition.]
1. To do, make, attempt or utter again; to iterate; as, to repeat an action; to repeat an attempt or exertion; to repeat a word or discourse; to repeat a song; to repeat an argument.
2. To try again.
I the danger will repeat
3. to recite; to rehearse.
He repeated some lines of Virgil.
To repeat signals, in the navy, is to make the same signal which the admiral or commander has made, or to make a signal again.
REPE'AT, noun
1. In music, a mark directing a part to be repeated in performance.
2. Repetition.
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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