Topic
Dote
4 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.
- Jeremiah 50:36ISBE
A sword is upon the liars; and they shall dote: a sword is upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed.
- Ezekiel 23:5ISBE
And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours,
- Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 25:2ISBE
Three sorts of men my soul hateth, and I am greatly offended at their life: a poor man that is proud, a rich man that is a liar, and an old adulterer that doateth.
- 1 Timothy 6:4ISBE
He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 4 references
dot: "To dote" means either "to be weakminded" or "to be foolishly fond." In the latter sense it is employed in Eze 23:5 ff; in the former, in Jer 50:36 the King James Version (the Revised Version (British and American) "shall become fools"); the King James Version Sirach 25:2 (the Revised Version (British and American) "lacking understanding"), and the King James Version 1Ti 6:4 (the Revised Version, margin "to be sick"; the King James Version margin"a fool").
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.