Genesis 49:4
Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.
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Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.
Read in context →As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
Read in context →2 occurrences in 2 verses.
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astḗriktos · as-tay'-rik-tos
unfixed, i.e. (figuratively) vacillating
Strong's KJV usage: :--unstable.
Strong's first: 2 Peter 2:14Strong's last: 2 Peter 3:16
Open full G793 profile →akatástatos · ak-at-as'-tat-os
inconstant
Strong's KJV usage: :--unstable.
Strong's first: James 1:8Strong's last: James 1:8
Open full G182 profile →pachaz · pakh'-az
ebullition, i.e. froth (figuratively, lust)
Strong's KJV usage: unstable.
Strong's first: Genesis 49:4Strong's last: Genesis 49:4
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Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.
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UNSTA'BLE, adjective [Latin instabilis.]
1. Not stable; not fixed.
2. Not steady; inconstant; irresolute; wavering. James 1:8.
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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