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Proverbs 11

Prov. 11:19 KJV (With Strong’s)

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As righteousness
tsdaqah (Hebrew #6666)
rightness (abstractly), subjectively (rectitude), objectively (justice), morally (virtue) or figuratively (prosperity)
KJV usage: justice, moderately, right(-eous) (act, -ly, -ness).
Pronounce: tsed-aw-kaw'
Origin: from 6663
tendeth to life
chay (Hebrew #2416)
alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or living thing), whether literally or figuratively
KJV usage: + age, alive, appetite, (wild) beast, company, congregation, life(-time), live(-ly), living (creature, thing), maintenance, + merry, multitude, + (be) old, quick, raw, running, springing, troop.
Pronounce: khah'-ee
Origin: from 2421
: so he that pursueth
radaph (Hebrew #7291)
to run after (usually with hostile intent; figuratively (of time) gone by)
KJV usage: chase, put to flight, follow (after, on), hunt, (be under) persecute(-ion, -or), pursue(-r).
Pronounce: raw-daf'
Origin: a primitive root
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
pursueth it to his own death
maveth (Hebrew #4194)
death (natural or violent); concretely, the dead, their place or state (hades); figuratively, pestilence, ruin
KJV usage: (be) dead((-ly)), death, die(-d).
Pronounce: maw'-veth
Origin: from 4191
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Cross References

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righteousness.
Prov. 11:4• 4Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death. (Prov. 11:4)
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Prov. 10:16• 16The labor of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin. (Prov. 10:16)
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Prov. 12:28• 28In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof there is no death. (Prov. 12:28)
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Prov. 19:23• 23The fear of the Lord tendeth to life: and he that hath it shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil. (Prov. 19:23)
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Acts 10:35• 35But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him. (Acts 10:35)
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1 John 3:7,10• 7Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
 10In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother. (1 John 3:7,10)
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Prov. 1:16‑19• 16For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
 17Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
 18And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
 19So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof. (Prov. 1:16‑19)
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Prov. 7:22‑23• 22He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
 23Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life. (Prov. 7:22‑23)
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Prov. 8:36• 36But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death. (Prov. 8:36)
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Rom. 2:8‑9• 8But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
 9Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; (Rom. 2:8‑9)

J. N. Darby Translation

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As righteousnessm tendeth to life, so he that pursueth evil doeth it to his own death.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "true righteousness."