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covet = envy, want to have for yourself.
honor = treat with respect.
No.so like my mother has a bottle of lemonade im thirst and want some of hers and ask her for some thats ot covet correct?
so like my mother has a bottle of lemonade im thirst and want some of hers and ask her for some thats ot covet correct?
i wouldnt do that unless i had a death wish haha but i want something of someone i would askMore like you would like to grab it out of her hand and make sure she didn't get any of it so you would be the only one to have it.
no worriesIgnore the attachments at the bottom of my first message, I can't seem to edit them out !
"Grasping the after wind" is right and you have nothing to worry about on this account. To simply admire something that another owns or to wish you had something like that is not at all what this commandment is speaking to. And if you are going to ask...then for sure not!i wouldnt do that unless i had a death wish haha but i want something of someone i would ask
Sorry, but English dictionaries can not properly convey the meanings of the original language words. It is not the English that matters but the Hebrew in this case.Dictionary
cov·et
/ˈkəvət/
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verb
verb: covet; 3rd person present: covets; past tense: coveted; past participle: coveted; gerund or present participle: coveting
yearn to possess or have (something).
"the president-elect covets time for exercise and fishing"the franchisees honor the terms of the contract.
Close. But it is more properly understood as MANIFESTED respect. It has to be shown to be honor.honor = treat with respect.
Point well taken, that's true and fair. Not to mention about 4 time what I wanted loaded in when I pasted it.Sorry, but English dictionaries can not properly convey the meanings of the original language words. It is not the English that matters but the Hebrew in this case.
It is a stronger desire than that. When you can't stop thinking about it or you are angry that someone else has what you want. At the extreme, people will break the law to get it.so like my mother has a bottle of lemonade im thirst and want some of hers and ask her for some thats ot covet correct?
ahIt is a stronger desire than that. When you can't stop thinking about it or you are angry that someone else has what you want. At the extreme, people will break the law to get it.
show respect to my mother thats itClose. But it is more properly understood as MANIFESTED respect. It has to be shown to be honor.
In first century Judea, it was understood to mean that you financially care for your parents when they retire. Our Lord seems to have agreed with this assessment:
Mark 7:10 kjv
For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death: 11 But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free. 12 And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;
im confused by it