Strong's Concordance
Original word: πρόφασις
Transliteration: prophasis
Definition (short): pretense
Definition (full): a pretense
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Definition: a pretense
NASB Translation: appearance's sake (2), excuse (1), pretense (3), pretext (1).
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References
KJV:
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
NASB:
"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you devour widows' houses, and for a pretense you make long prayers; therefore you will receive greater condemnation.
KJV:
Which devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation.
NASB:
who devour widows' houses, and for appearance's sake offer long prayers; these will receive greater condemnation."
KJV:
Which devour widows' houses, and for a shew make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation.
NASB:
who devour widows' houses, and for appearance's sake offer long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation."
KJV:
If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin.
NASB:
"If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.
KJV:
And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship, when they had let down the boat into the sea, under colour as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship,
NASB:
But as the sailors were trying to escape from the ship and had let down the ship's boat into the sea, on the pretense of intending to lay out anchors from the bow,