Ecclesiastes 3:7
A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
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Sew
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Ezekiel 13:18
And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the women that sew pillows to all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon the head of every stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and will ye save the souls alive that come unto you?
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תָּפַר
tâphar · taw-far'
2 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
to sew
Strong's KJV usage: (women that) sew (together).
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Strong's first: Ecclesiastes 3:7Strong's last: Ezekiel 13:18
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And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the women that sew pillows to all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon the head of every stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and will ye save the souls alive that come unto you?
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sew
SEW, To follow. [Not used. See Sue.]
SEW, verb transitive pronounced so, and better written soe. To unite or fasten together with a needle and thread.
They sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons. Genesis 3:7.
To sew up, to inclose by sewing; to inclose in anything sewed.
Thou sewest up my iniquity. Job 14:17.
Sew me up the sdirts of the gown. Shak.
SEW, verb intransitive To practice sewing; to join things with stitches.
SEW, verb transitive [Latin sicco, to dry.] To drain a pond for taking the fish. Obs.
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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