Topic
Babbling
5 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Proverbs 23:29ISBE
Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
- Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 19:6ISBE
He that can rule his tongue shall live without strife; and he that hateth babbling shall have less evil.
- Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 20:5ISBE
There is one that keepeth silence, and is found wise: and another by much babbling becometh hateful.
- 1 Timothy 6:20ISBE
O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:
- 2 Timothy 2:16ISBE
But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 5 references
bab'-ling siach; the Revised Version (British and American) COMPLAINING): The consequence of tarrying long at the wine (Pr 23:29 the King James Version); lalia, the Revised Version (British and American) "talk" (Ecclesiasticus 19:6; 20:5 the King James Version); kenophonia, literally, "making an empty sound" (1Ti 6:20; 2Ti 2:16 the King James Version and the Revised Version (British and American).
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.