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Proverbs 1

Prov. 1:11 KJV (With Strong’s)

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If they say
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
, Come
yalak (Hebrew #3212)
to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)
KJV usage: X again, away, bear, bring, carry (away), come (away), depart, flow, + follow(-ing), get (away, hence, him), (cause to, made) go (away, -ing, -ne, one's way, out), grow, lead (forth), let down, march, prosper, + pursue, cause to run, spread, take away ((-journey)), vanish, (cause to) walk(-ing), wax, X be weak.
Pronounce: yaw-lak'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 1980)
with us, let us lay wait
'arab (Hebrew #693)
to lurk
KJV usage: (lie in) ambush(-ment), lay (lie in) wait.
Pronounce: aw-rab'
Origin: a primitive root
for blood
dam (Hebrew #1818)
blood (as that which when shed causes death) of man or an animal; by analogy, the juice of the grape; figuratively (especially in the plural) bloodshed (i.e. drops of blood)
KJV usage: blood(-y, -guiltiness, (-thirsty), + innocent.
Pronounce: dawm
Origin: from 1826 (compare 119)
, let us lurk
tsaphan (Hebrew #6845)
to hide (by covering over); by implication, to hoard or reserve; figuratively to deny; specifically (favorably) to protect, (unfavorably) to lurk
KJV usage: esteem, hide(-den one, self), lay up, lurk (be set) privily, (keep) secret(-ly, place).
Pronounce: tsaw-fan'
Origin: a primitive root
privily for the innocent
naqiy (Hebrew #5355)
from 5352; innocent
KJV usage: blameless, clean, clear, exempted, free, guiltless, innocent, quit.
Pronounce: naw-kee'
Origin: or naqiyi (Joel {SI 10004}4{/SI} : {SI 10019}19{/SI}; Jonah 1 : 1{SI 10004}4{/SI}), {naw-kee'}
without cause
chinnam (Hebrew #2600)
gratis, i.e. devoid of cost, reason or advantage
KJV usage: without a cause (cost, wages), causeless, to cost nothing, free(-ly), innocent, for nothing (nought, in vain.
Pronounce: khin-nawm'
Origin: from 2580
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let us lay.
Prov. 1:16• 16for their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood. (Prov. 1:16)
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Prov. 12:6• 6The words of the wicked are a lying-in-wait for blood; but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. (Prov. 12:6)
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Prov. 30:14• 14--a generation whose teeth are swords, and their jaw-teeth knives, to devour the afflicted from off the earth, and the needy from among men. (Prov. 30:14)
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Psa. 56:6• 6They gather themselves together, they hide themselves; they mark my steps, because they wait for my soul. (Psa. 56:6)
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Psa. 64:5‑6• 5They encourage themselves in an evil matter, they concert to hide snares; they say, Who will see them?
6They devise iniquities: We have it ready, the plan is diligently sought out. And each one's inward thought and heart is deep.
(Psa. 64:5‑6)
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Jer. 5:26• 26For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as fowlers stoop down; they set a trap, they catch men. (Jer. 5:26)
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Mic. 7:2• 2The godly man hath perished out of the land, and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood, they hunt every man his brother with a net. (Mic. 7:2)
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Acts 23:15• 15Now therefore do ye with the council make a representation to the chiliarch so that he may bring him down to you, as about to determine more precisely what concerns him, and we, before he draws near, are ready to kill him. (Acts 23:15)
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Acts 25:3• 3asking as a grace against him that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying people in wait to kill him on the way. (Acts 25:3)
let us lurk.
Prov. 1:18• 18And these lay wait for their own blood; they lurk secretly for their own lives. (Prov. 1:18)
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Psa. 10:8‑10• 8He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages; in the secret places doth he slay the innocent: his eyes watch for the wretched.
9He lieth in wait secretly, like a lion in his thicket; he lieth in wait to catch the afflicted: he doth catch the afflicted, drawing him into his net.
10He croucheth, he boweth down, that the wretched may fall by his strong ones.
(Psa. 10:8‑10)
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Psa. 17:12• 12He is like a lion that is greedy of its prey, and as a young lion lurking in secret places. (Psa. 17:12)
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Psa. 35:7• 7For without cause have they hidden for me their net in a pit; without cause they have digged it for my soul. (Psa. 35:7)
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Jer. 11:19• 19And I was like a tame lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I knew not that they devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered. (Jer. 11:19)
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Jer. 18:18‑20• 18And they said, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor word from the prophet. Come and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
19Jehovah, give heed to me, and listen to the voice of those that contend with me.
20Shall evil be recompensed for good? For they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before thee to speak good for them, to turn away thy wrath from them.
(Jer. 18:18‑20)
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Matt. 26:3‑4• 3Then the chief priests and the elders of the people were gathered together to the palace of the high priest who was called Caiaphas,
4and took counsel together in order that they might seize Jesus by subtlety and kill him;
(Matt. 26:3‑4)
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John 15:25• 25But that the word written in their law might be fulfilled, They hated me without a cause. (John 15:25)

J. N. Darby Translation

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If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;