Verse Ecclesiastes 3:7. A time to rend, - sew, - keep silence, - speak]
_______________ "Intestine broils
And factions rend a state: at length the breach
Is heal'd, and rest ensues. Wisdom restrains
The tongue, when words are vain: but now,
'Tis time to speak, and silence would be criminal."
REND - i. e., Tear garments in sign of mourning or anger. See 2 Samuel 1:2, 2 Samuel 1:11 ff....
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TO REND. 1 Samuel 15:27; 1 Samuel 15:28. 1Ki 11:11, 1 Kings 11:31; 1 Kings 12:31;...
_A time to rent, and a time to sew_ The words are commonly connected with the practice of rending the garments as a sign of sorrow (Genesis 37:29; Genesis 37:34; Genesis 44:13;...
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A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A TIME TO REND - garments, in mourning (). Figurative, nations, as Israel from Judah, already foretold in Solomon's t...
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A TIME TO REND, AND A TIME TO SEW,.... To rend garments, in case of blasphemy, and in times of mourning and fasting, and then to sew them up when they are over; see Isaiah 37:1; This the Jews apply to...
A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; Ver. 7. _A time to rend, and a time to sew._] As in making a new or translating an old garment. Turks wonder at the Eng...
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"A TIME TO TEAR APART, AND. TIME TO SEW TOGETHER;""This verse may refer to actions associated with mourning (tearing one's clothes and remaining silent; cf. Job 2:12-13)" (Bible Knowledge Comm. p. 984...
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A TIME TO REND; when men shall rend their garments, as they did in great and sudden griefs, as GENESIS 37:29 JOEL 2:13. A TIME TO KEEP SILENCE; wherein men will or shall be silent, either through grie...
Ecclesiastes 3:7 time H6256 tear H7167 (H8800) time H6256 sew H8609 (H8800) time H6256 silence...
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1 Kings 21:27; 1 Samuel 19:4; 1 Samuel 19:5; 1 Samuel 25:24; 2 King
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To rent — When men rend their garments, as they did in great and sudden griefs....