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Proverbs 2

Prov. 2:12 KJV (With Strong’s)

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To deliver
natsal (Hebrew #5337)
to snatch away, whether in a good or a bad sense
KJV usage: X at all, defend, deliver (self), escape, X without fail, part, pluck, preserve, recover, rescue, rid, save, spoil, strip, X surely, take (out).
Pronounce: naw-tsal'
Origin: a primitive root
thee from the way
derek (Hebrew #1870)
a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
KJV usage: along, away, because of, + by, conversation, custom, (east-)ward, journey, manner, passenger, through, toward, (high-) (path-)way(-side), whither(-soever).
Pronounce: deh'-rek
Origin: from 1869
of the evil
ra` (Hebrew #7451)
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
KJV usage: adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, + displease(-ure), distress, evil((- favouredness), man, thing), + exceedingly, X great, grief(-vous), harm, heavy, hurt(-ful), ill (favoured), + mark, mischief(-vous), misery, naught(-ty), noisome, + not please, sad(-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked(-ly, -ness, one), worse(-st), wretchedness, wrong. (Incl. feminine raaah; as adjective or noun.).
Pronounce: rah
Origin: from 7489
man, from the man
'iysh (Hebrew #376)
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
KJV usage: also, another, any (man), a certain, + champion, consent, each, every (one), fellow, (foot-, husband-)man, (good-, great, mighty) man, he, high (degree), him (that is), husband, man(-kind), + none, one, people, person, + steward, what (man) soever, whoso(-ever), worthy. Compare 802.
Pronounce: eesh
Origin: contracted for 582 (or perhaps rather from an unused root meaning to be extant)
that speaketh
dabar (Hebrew #1696)
perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
KJV usage: answer, appoint, bid, command, commune, declare, destroy, give, name, promise, pronounce, rehearse, say, speak, be spokesman, subdue, talk, teach, tell, think, use (entreaties), utter, X well, X work.
Pronounce: daw-bar'
Origin: a primitive root
froward things
tahpukah (Hebrew #8419)
a perversity or fraud
KJV usage: (very) froward(-ness, thing), perverse thing.
Pronounce: tah-poo-kaw'
Origin: from 2015
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Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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deliver.
Prov. 1:10‑19• 10My son, if sinners entice thee, consent not.
 11If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;
 12let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, and whole, as those that go down into the pit;
 13we shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
 14cast in thy lot among us; we will all have one purse:
 15--my son, walk not in the way with them, keep back thy foot from their path;
 16for their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.
 17For in vain the net is spread in the sight of anything which hath wings.
 18And these lay wait for their own blood; they lurk secretly for their own lives.
 19So are the paths of every one that is greedy of gain: it taketh away the life of its possessors. (Prov. 1:10‑19)
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Prov. 4:14‑17• 14Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men:
 15avoid it, pass not by it; turn from it, and pass away.
 16For they sleep not except they have done mischief, and their sleep is taken away unless they have caused some to fall.
 17For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence. (Prov. 4:14‑17)
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Prov. 9:6• 6Forsake follies and live, and go in the way of intelligence. (Prov. 9:6)
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Prov. 13:20• 20He that walketh with wise men becometh wise; but a companion of the foolish will be depraved. (Prov. 13:20)
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Psa. 17:4‑5• 4Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept from the paths of the violent man.
 5When thou holdest my goings in thy paths, my footsteps slip not. (Psa. 17:4‑5)
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Psa. 26:4‑5• 4I have not sat with vain persons, neither have I gone in with dissemblers;
 5I have hated the congregation of evil-doers, and I have not sat with the wicked. (Psa. 26:4‑5)
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Psa. 141:4• 4Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise deeds of wickedness with men that are workers of iniquity; and let me not eat of their dainties. (Psa. 141:4)
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2 Cor. 6:17• 17Wherefore come out from the midst of them, and be separated, saith the Lord, and touch not what is unclean, and *I* will receive you; (2 Cor. 6:17)
from the man.
Prov. 3:32• 32For the perverse is an abomination to Jehovah; but his secret is with the upright. (Prov. 3:32)
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Prov. 8:13• 13The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil; pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth do I hate. (Prov. 8:13)
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Prov. 16:28‑30• 28A false man soweth contention; and a talebearer separateth very friends.
 29A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into a way that is not good.
 30He that shutteth his eyes, it is to devise froward things; biting his lips, he bringeth evil to pass. (Prov. 16:28‑30)
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Psa. 101:4• 4A perverse heart shall depart from me; I will not know evil. (Psa. 101:4)
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Isa. 59:3‑5• 3For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips speak lies, your tongue muttereth unrighteousness:
 4none calleth for justice, none pleadeth in truthfulness. They trust in vanity, and speak falsehood; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
 5They hatch serpents' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper. (Isa. 59:3‑5)
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Acts 20:30• 30and from among your own selves shall rise up men speaking perverted things to draw away the disciples after them. (Acts 20:30)
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1 Cor. 15:33• 33Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. (1 Cor. 15:33)
• The evil man is the man who walks in the pride of his heart and in independence of God. This, to the young, seems very attractive, appealing to the natural mind. (“Proverbs Two” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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To deliver thee from the way of evil, from the man that speaketh froward thingsa;

JND Translation Notes

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Or "deceits," plural, as often. see Ps. 5.9; 11.7.