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Proverbs 20

Pr. 20:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

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The fear
'eymah (Hebrew #367)
from the same as 366; fright; concrete, an idol (as a bugbear)
KJV usage: dread, fear, horror, idol, terrible, terror.
Pronounce: ay-maw'
Origin: or (shortened) remah {ay-maw'}
of a king
melek (Hebrew #4428)
a king
KJV usage: king, royal.
Pronounce: meh'-lek
Origin: from 4427
is as the roaring
naham (Hebrew #5099)
a snarl
KJV usage: roaring.
Pronounce: nah'-ham
Origin: from 5098
of a lion
kphiyr (Hebrew #3715)
a village (as covered in by walls); also a young lion (perhaps as covered with a mane)
KJV usage: (young) lion, village. Compare 3723.
Pronounce: kef-eer'
Origin: from 3722
: whoso provoketh him to anger
`abar (Hebrew #5674)
to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in copulation)
KJV usage: alienate, alter, X at all, beyond, bring (over, through), carry over, (over-)come (on, over), conduct (over), convey over, current, deliver, do away, enter, escape, fail, gender, get over, (make) go (away, beyond, by, forth, his way, in, on, over, through), have away (more), lay, meddle, overrun, make partition, (cause to, give, make to, over) pass(-age, along, away, beyond, by, -enger, on, out, over, through), (cause to, make) + proclaim(-amation), perish, provoke to anger, put away, rage, + raiser of taxes, remove, send over, set apart, + shave, cause to (make) sound, X speedily, X sweet smelling, take (away), (make to) transgress(-or), translate, turn away, (way-)faring man, be wrath.
Pronounce: aw-bar'
Origin: a primitive root
sinneth
chata' (Hebrew #2398)
properly, to miss; hence (figuratively and generally) to sin; by inference, to forfeit, lack, expiate, repent, (causatively) lead astray, condemn
KJV usage: bear the blame, cleanse, commit (sin), by fault, harm he hath done, loss, miss, (make) offend(-er), offer for sin, purge, purify (self), make reconciliation, (cause, make) sin(-ful, -ness), trespass.
Pronounce: khaw-taw'
Origin: a primitive root
against his own soul
nephesh (Hebrew #5315)
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
KJV usage: any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, X dead(-ly), desire, X (dis-)contented, X fish, ghost, + greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, X jeopardy of) life (X in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-)self, them (your)-selves, + slay, soul, + tablet, they, thing, (X she) will, X would have it.
Pronounce: neh'-fesh
Origin: from 5314
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King,
Lion,
Soul; Spirit

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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fear.
Pr. 16:14‑15• 14La ira del rey es mensajero de muerte: Mas el hombre sabio la evitará.
 15En la alegría del rostro del rey está la vida; Y su benevolencia es como nube de lluvia tardía. (Pr. 16:14‑15)
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Pr. 19:12• 12Como el bramido del cachorro de león es la ira del rey; Y su favor como el rocío sobre la hierba. (Pr. 19:12)
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Ec. 10:4• 4Si el espíritu del príncipe se exaltare contra ti, no dejes tu lugar; porque la lenidad hará cesar grandes ofensas. (Ec. 10:4)
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Os. 11:10• 10En pos de Jehová caminarán: él bramará como león: cual león rugirá él de cierto, y los hijos se moverán azorados del occidente. (Os. 11:10)
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Am. 3:8• 8Bramando el león, ¿quién no temerá? hablando el Señor Jehová, ¿quién no porfetizará? (Am. 3:8)
sinneth.
Pr. 8:36• 36Mas el que peca contra mí, defrauda su alma: Todos los que me aborrecen, aman la muerte. (Pr. 8:36)
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1 R. 2:23• 23Y el rey Salomón juró por Jehová, diciendo: Así me haga Dios y así me añada, que contra su vida ha hablado Adonía esta palabra. (1 R. 2:23)
• To resist the power is to resist Him who appointed it, and is to provoke the king to anger, and thus to sin against one’s own soul; for his wrath will be poured out upon the rebellious. (“Proverbs Twenty” by H.A. Ironside)
• Hanun had to prove “the wrath of a king” when he refused his kindness (2 Sam. 10). (“Proverbs Twenty” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion: he that provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.