Topic
Compare
7 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1915 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Psalms 89:6ISBE
For who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD?
- Proverbs 3:15ISBE
She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.
- Proverbs 8:11ISBE
For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
- Song of Songs 1:9ISBE
I have compared thee, O my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh’s chariots.
- Isaiah 40:18ISBE
¶ To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?
- Isaiah 46:5ISBE
¶ To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?
- 1 Corinthians 2:13ISBE
Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 7 references
kom-par' (damah, mashal, [`arakh]; paraballo, sugkrino): "Compare" is the translation of damah, "to be like" (So 1:9); of mashal, "to liken," "compare" (Isa 46:5); of `arakh, "to set in array," "compare" (Ps 89:6; Isa 40:18); of shawah, "to be equal" (Pr 3:15; 8:11).
In the New Testament sugkrino, "to judge" or "sift together," is translated "comparing," "comparing spiritual things with spiritual" (1Co 2:13 the English Revised Version), the American Standard Revised Version "combining" ("adapting the discourse to the subject," Thayer), the Revised Version, margin "interpreting spiritual things to spiritual (men)."
W. L. Walker
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.