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Proverbs 1

Prov. 1:18 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And they 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 their own 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)
; they lurk privily
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
for their own lives
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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Cross References

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Prov. 5:22‑23• 22His own iniquities shall take the wicked, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.
 23He shall die for want of discipline; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray. (Prov. 5:22‑23)
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Prov. 9:17‑18• 17Stolen waters are sweet, and the bread of secrecy is pleasant.
 18But he knoweth not that the dead are there; that her guests are in the depths of Sheol. (Prov. 9:17‑18)
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Prov. 28:17• 17A man laden with the blood of any person, fleeth to the pit: let no man stay him. (Prov. 28:17)
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Esther 7:10• 10So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. And the king's wrath was appeased. (Esther 7:10)
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Psa. 7:14‑16• 14Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, yea, he hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood:
 15He digged a pit, and hollowed it out, and is fallen into the hole that he made.
 16His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violence shall come down upon his own pate. (Psa. 7:14‑16)
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Psa. 9:16• 16Jehovah is known by the judgment he hath executed: the wicked is ensnared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah. (Psa. 9:16)
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Psa. 55:23• 23And thou, O God, wilt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days. But as for me, I will confide in thee. (Psa. 55:23)
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Matt. 27:4‑5• 4saying, I have sinned in having delivered up guiltless blood. But they said, What is that to us? see *thou* to that.
 5And having cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, he left the place, and went away and hanged himself. (Matt. 27:4‑5)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And these lay wait for their own blood; they lurk secretly for their own lives.