I had no idea the phrase "apple of my eye" had Biblical origins
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2023 9:18 pm
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Gold was the first of many flying colors.endlessQuestions wrote: ↑Sat Feb 25, 2023 1:16 pm
Here's what the standard works have to say about words that start with "appl"
I had no idea the phrase "apple of my eye" had Biblical origins.
Perhaps if we apply.
We can once again
Become the apple of His eye.
Fascinating.
And this one, for some reason, made me think of my new friend Be Not Deceived:
Proverbs 25:11 A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
Probably because when I read it, something feels right about it, but I don't quite understand what it means...
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Deuteronomy 32:10 He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
Psalms 17:8 Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,
Psalms 90:12 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
Proverbs 2:2 So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;
Proverbs 7:2 Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
Proverbs 22:17 Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.
Proverbs 23:12 Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
Proverbs 25:11 A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
Ecclesiastes 7:25 I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:
Ecclesiastes 8:9 All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.
Ecclesiastes 8:16 When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)
Song of Solomon 2:3 As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
Song of Solomon 2:5 Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.
Song of Solomon 7:8 I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples;
Song of Solomon 8:5 Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare thee.
Lamentations 2:18 Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease.
Joel 1:12 The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.
Zechariah 2:8 For thus saith the Lord of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.
Mosiah 4:2 And they had viewed themselves in their own carnal state, even less than the dust of the earth. And they all cried aloud with one voice, saying: O have mercy, and apply the atoning blood of Christ that we may receive forgiveness of our sins, and our hearts may be purified; for we believe in Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who created heaven and earth, and all things; who shall come down among the children of men.
Mosiah 12:27 Ye have not applied your hearts to understanding; therefore, ye have not been wise. Therefore, what teach ye this people?
Ether 9:5 And it came to pass that Akish sought the life of his father-in-law; and he applied unto those whom he had sworn by the oath of the ancients, and they obtained the head of his father-in-law, as he sat upon his throne, giving audience to his people.
Doctrine and Covenants 8:4 Therefore this is thy gift; apply unto it, and blessed art thou, for it shall deliver you out of the hands of your enemies, when, if it were not so, they would slay you and bring your soul to destruction.
A word fitly spoken is a good way to describe timing patterns that result in word formations. Also word tuples such as Deep, but not Profound, or Ghost, but not Goblin, which was evident with the 5.7 magnitude earthquake that landed Moroni’s Instrument.
Here the Spirit is invited to shed new light as in the days of old, but using modern methods.
Technology, but not modern maniacal methods.
Seek understanding, as you listen up.
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