Strong's numbers

מָשַׁל H4911 Hear this

mâshal

maw-shal'

denominative from מָשָׁל; to liken, i.e. (transitively) to use figurative language (an allegory, adage, song or the like); intransitively, to resemble; be(-come) like, compare, use (as a) proverb, speak (in proverbs), utter.

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15 occurrences

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• Numbers 21:27
  Wherefore they that speak in proverbs say, Come into Heshbon, let the city of Sihon be built and prepared:
• Job 30:19
  He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
• Psalms 28:1
  A Psalm of David. Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
• Psalms 49:12
  Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.
• Psalms 49:20
  Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.
• Psalms 143:7
  Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.
• Isaiah 14:10
  All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?
• Isaiah 46:5
  To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?
• Ezekiel 12:23
  Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel; but say unto them, The days are at hand, and the effect of every vision.
• Ezekiel 16:44
  Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.