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Proverbs 6

Prov. 6:9 KJV (With Strong’s)

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How long wilt thou sleep
shakab (Hebrew #7901)
to lie down (for rest, sexual connection, decease or any other purpose)
KJV usage: X at all, cast down, ((lover-))lay (self) (down), (make to) lie (down, down to sleep, still with), lodge, ravish, take rest, sleep, stay.
Pronounce: shaw-kab'
Origin: a primitive root
, O sluggard
`atsel (Hebrew #6102)
indolent
KJV usage: slothful, sluggard.
Pronounce: aw-tsale'
Origin: from 6101
? when wilt thou arise
quwm (Hebrew #6965)
to rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative)
KJV usage: abide, accomplish, X be clearer, confirm, continue, decree, X be dim, endure, X enemy, enjoin, get up, make good, help, hold, (help to) lift up (again), make, X but newly, ordain, perform, pitch, raise (up), rear (up), remain, (a-)rise (up) (again, against), rouse up, set (up), (e-)stablish, (make to) stand (up), stir up, strengthen, succeed, (as-, make) sure(-ly), (be) up(-hold, - rising).
Pronounce: koom
Origin: a primitive root
out of thy sleep
shehah (Hebrew #8142)
from 3462; sleep
KJV usage: sleep.
Pronounce: shay-naw'
Origin: or shena (Psa. 127:2) {shay-naw'}
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Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Prov. 1:22• 22How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? (Prov. 1:22)
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Prov. 24:33‑34• 33Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
 34So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man. (Prov. 24:33‑34)
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Jer. 4:14• 14O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee? (Jer. 4:14)
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Psa. 94:8• 8Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise? (Psa. 94:8)
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John 1:6• 6There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. (John 1:6)
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Rom. 13:11• 11And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. (Rom. 13:11)
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Eph. 5:14• 14Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. (Eph. 5:14)
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1 Thess. 5:2‑7• 2For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
 3For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
 4But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
 5Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
 6Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
 7For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. (1 Thess. 5:2‑7)
• Sleeping in time of labor is out of place in a scene where man has been commanded to eat his bread by the sweat of his face. (“Proverbs Six” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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How long, sluggard, wilt thou lie down? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?