Psalms 19:7
The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.
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Simple
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Romans 16:19
For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil.
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פְּתִי
pᵉthîy · peth-ee'
15 times translated as this KJV form19 total Strong's occurrences
silly (i.e. seducible)
Strong's KJV usage: foolish, simple(-icity, one).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 19:7Strong's last: Ezekiel 45:20
Open full H6612 profile →ἄκακος
ákakos · ak'-ak-os
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
not bad, i.e. (objectively) innocent or (subjectively) unsuspecting
Strong's KJV usage: :--harmless, simple.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Romans 16:18Strong's last: Romans 16:18
Open full G172 profile →ἀκέραιος
akéraios · ak-er'-ah-yos
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
unmixed, i.e. (figuratively) innocent
Strong's KJV usage: :--harmless, simple.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Romans 16:19Strong's last: Romans 16:19
Open full G185 profile →פְּתַיּוּת
pᵉthayûwth · peth-ah-yooth'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
silliness (i.e. seducibility)
Strong's KJV usage: simple.
Strong's first: Proverbs 9:13Strong's last: Proverbs 9:13
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G172
For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
G185
For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil.
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simple
SIM'PLE, adjective [Latin simplex; sine, without and plex, plica, doubling, fold; ]
1. Single; consisting of one thing; uncompounded; unmingled; uncombined with any thing else; as a simple substance; a simple idea; a simple sound.
2. Plain; artless; not given to design, stratagem or duplicity; undesigning; sincere; harmless. A simple husbandman in garments gray.
3. Artless; unaffected; unconstrained; inartificial; plain. In simple manners all the secret lies.
4. Unadorned; plain; as a simple style or narration; a simple dress.
5. Not complex or complicated; as a machine of simple construction.
6. Weak in intellect; not wise or sagacious; silly. The simple believeth every word; but the prudent looketh well to his going. Proverbs 14:15.
7. In botany, undivided, as a root, stem or spike; only one on a petiole, as a simple leaf; only one on a peduncle, as a simple flower; having only one set of rays, as an umbel; having only one row of leaflets, as a simple calyx; not plumose or fathered, as a pappus. A simple body, in chemisty, is one that has not been decomposed, or separated into two or more bodies.
SIM'PLE, noun Something not mixed or compounded. in the materia medica, the genral denomination of an herb or plant. as each vegetable is supposed to possess its particular virtue, and therefore to constitute a simple remedy.
SIM'PLE, verb intransitive To gather simples or plants. As simpling on the flowery hills he stray'd.
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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