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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,{HR}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,{HR}But the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. (Prov. 12:6)
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Prov. 30:14• 14—{i}A generation whose teeth are swords,{HR}And their jaw-teeth knives,{HR}To devour the afflicted from off the earth,{HR}And the needy from [among] men.{/i} (Prov. 30:14)
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Psa. 56:6• 6They gather themselves together, they hide,{HR}They mark my steps while they wait for my soul. (Psa. 56:6)
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Psa. 64:5‑6• 5They strengthen to themselves an evil matter;{HR}They concert to hide snares;{HR}They have said, Who will see them?
6They devise iniquities:{HR}We are ready (finished)! a well-devised device!{HR}And each one's inward [thought] and heart [is] deep.
(Psa. 64:5‑6)
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Jer. 5:26• 26{i}For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as fowlers stoop down; they set a trap, they catch men.{/i} (Jer. 5:26)
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Mic. 7:2• 2The good man is perished {i}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.{/i} (Mic. 7:2)
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Acts 23:15• 15Now therefore do ye, with the council, signify to the commander that he bring him down unto you as though ye would judge his cause more exactly. But we, before he come near, are ready to slay him. (Acts 23:15)
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Acts 25:3• 3asking a favour that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying wait to kill him on the way. (Acts 25:3)
let us lurk.
Prov. 1:18• 18And they lay wait for their own blood;{HR}They lurk privily for their own lives. (Prov. 1:18)
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Psa. 10:8‑10• 8He sitteth in the place of ambush of the villages;{HR}In the lurking places he slayeth the innocent;{HR}His eyes lurk for the wretched.
9He lieth in wait in the secret place like a lion in his covert;{HR}He lieth in wait to catch the afflicted;{HR}He catcheth the afflicted when he draweth him into his net.
10And he is crushed, he is brought low,{HR}The wretched hath fallen by his might.
(Psa. 10:8‑10)
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Psa. 17:12• 12His likeness [is] as a lion;{HR}He longeth to tear in pieces,{HR}And as a young lion sitting in secret places. (Psa. 17:12)
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Psa. 35:7• 7For without cause they have hidden a pit for me, their net;{HR}Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul. (Psa. 35:7)
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Jer. 11:19• 19{i}And 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.{/i} (Jer. 11:19)
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Jer. 18:18‑20• 18Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
19Give heed to me, Jehovah, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me.
20Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.
(Jer. 18:18‑20)
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Matt. 26:3‑4• 3{i}Then the chief priests and the elders of the people were gathered together to the palace of the high priest who was called Caiaphas,{/i}
4{i}and took counsel together in order that they might seize Jesus by subtlety and kill him;{/i}
(Matt. 26:3‑4)
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John 15:25• 25But [it is] that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, 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;

W. Kelly Translation

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If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood,{HR}Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause;