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Proverbs 11

Prov. 11:25 KJV (With Strong’s)

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The κliberal
Brakah (Hebrew #1293)
benediction; by implication prosperity
KJV usage: blessing, liberal, pool, present.
Pronounce: ber-aw-kaw'
Origin: from 1288
p 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
shall be made fat
dashen (Hebrew #1878)
to be fat; transitively, to fatten (or regard as fat); specifically to anoint; figuratively, to satisfy; denominatively (from 1880) to remove (fat) ashes (of sacrifices)
KJV usage: accept, anoint, take away the (receive) ashes (from), make (wax) fat.
Pronounce: daw-shane'
Origin: a primitive root
: and he that watereth
ravah (Hebrew #7301)
to slake the thirst (occasionally of other appetites)
KJV usage: bathe, make drunk, (take the) fill, satiate, (abundantly) satisfy, soak, water (abundantly).
Pronounce: raw-vaw'
Origin: a primitive root
shall be watered
yarah (Hebrew #3384)
{yaw-raw'}; a primitive root; properly, to flow as water (i.e. to rain); transitively, to lay or throw (especially an arrow, i.e. to shoot); figuratively, to point out (as if by aiming the finger), to teach
KJV usage: (+) archer, cast, direct, inform, instruct, lay, shew, shoot, teach(-er,-ing), through.
Pronounce: yaw-raw'
Origin: or (2 Chr. 26:15) yara
also himself.
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Isa. 32:8• 8But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and in liberal things doth he stand. (Isa. 32:8)
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or, soul of blessing.

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Soul; Spirit

Cross References

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liberal soul.
Heb. soul of blessing.
Prov. 28:27• 27{i}He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack;{HR}But he that withdraweth his eyes shall have many a curse.{/i} (Prov. 28:27)
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Job 29:13‑18• 13The blessing of the perishing came on me,{HR}And the heart of the widow I made sing.
 14Righteousness I put on, and it put me on,{HR}As a robe and a diadem mine equity.
 15I was eyes to the blind,{HR}And feet [was] I to the lame,
 16A father to the needy,{HR}And the cause I knew not I searched.
 17And I broke the jaw of the wicked,{HR}And flung the prey out of his teeth.
 18And I said, With my nest I shall expire,{HR}And as sand shall multiply my days. (Job 29:13‑18)
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Job 31:16‑20• 16If I kept back the poor from [their] desire,{HR}And the eyes of the widow made to pine,
 17Or ate my morsel by myself,{HR}And the orphan had not eaten of it
 18(For from my path I brought him up as a father,{HR}And her I guided from my mother’s womb);
 19If I saw [any] perishing without clothing,{HR}And the needy without covering;
 20If his loins blessed me not,{HR}And he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep; (Job 31:16‑20)
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Isa. 32:8• 8But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and in liberal things doth he stand. (Isa. 32:8)
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Isa. 58:7‑11• 7[Is it] not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor wanderers to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
 8Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thy healing shall spring forth speedily; and thy righteousness shall go before thee, the glory of Jehovah shall be thy rearward.
 9Then shalt thou call, and Jehovah shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I [am]. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and the speaking vanity;
 10and [if] thou proffer thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in darkness, and thine obscurity [be] as the noonday:
 11and Jehovah will guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make strong thy bones; and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters deceive not. (Isa. 58:7‑11)
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Matt. 5:7• 7Blessed the merciful; for they shall obtain mercy. (Matt. 5:7)
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Matt. 25:34‑35• 34Then shall the King say to those on his right, Come ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the world's foundation.
 35For I was hungry, and ye gave me to eat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me in; (Matt. 25:34‑35)

J. N. Darby Translation

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The liberal soulo shall be made fat, and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.

JND Translation Notes

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Lit. "The blessing soul."

W. Kelly Translation

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The blessing soul shall be made fat;{HR}And he that watereth shall be watered also himself.