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- 2:22 But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.†
Chpt 2
- 11:3 The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.†
Chpt 11
- 11:6 The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness.†
Chpt 11
- 12:13 The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.†
Chpt 12 *transgression = an act that violates a rule, promise, or social norm
- 13:2 A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth: but the soul of the transgressors shall eat violence.†
Chpt 13
- 13:15 Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is hard.†
Chpt 13
- 16:10 A divine sentence is in the lips of the king: his mouth transgresseth not in judgment.†
Chpt 16transgresseth = violates a rule, promise, or social normstandard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She transgresseth" in older English, today we say "She transgresses."
- 17:9 He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.†
Chpt 17transgression = an act that violates a rule, promise, or social norm
- 17:19 He loveth transgression that loveth strife: and he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction.†
Chpt 17
- 19:11 The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.†
Chpt 19
- 21:18 The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.†
Chpt 21transgressor = someone who violates a rule, promise, or social norm
- 22:12 The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor.†
Chpt 22
- 23:28 She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.†
Chpt 23
- 26:10 The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors.†
Chpt 26
- 28:2 For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof: but by a man of understanding and knowledge the state thereof shall be prolonged.†
Chpt 28transgression = an act that violates a rule, promise, or social norm
- 28:21 To have respect of persons is not good: for a piece of bread that man will transgress.†
Chpt 28transgress = violate a rule, promise, or social norm
- 28:24 Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of a destroyer.†
Chpt 28transgression = an act that violates a rule, promise, or social norm
- 29:6 In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare: but the righteous doth sing and rejoice.†
Chpt 29
- 29:16 When the wicked are multiplied, transgression increaseth: but the righteous shall see their fall.†
Chpt 29
- 29:22 An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.†
Chpt 29
Definitions:
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(transgress) to violate a rule, promise, or social norm
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely (and archaically), transgress can mean: "spread over land, especially along a subsiding shoreline" as in "The sea transgresses along the West coast of the island."