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Proverbs 12

Prov. 12:6 KJV (With Strong’s)

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The words
dabar (Hebrew #1697)
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
KJV usage: act, advice, affair, answer, X any such (thing), because of, book, business, care, case, cause, certain rate, + chronicles, commandment, X commune(-ication), + concern(-ing), + confer, counsel, + dearth, decree, deed, X disease, due, duty, effect, + eloquent, errand, (evil favoured-)ness, + glory, + harm, hurt, + iniquity, + judgment, language, + lying, manner, matter, message, (no) thing, oracle, X ought, X parts, + pertaining, + please, portion, + power, promise, provision, purpose, question, rate, reason, report, request, X (as hast) said, sake, saying, sentence, + sign, + so, some (uncleanness), somewhat to say, + song, speech, X spoken, talk, task, + that, X there done, thing (concerning), thought, + thus, tidings, what(-soever), + wherewith, which, word, work.
Pronounce: daw-baw'
Origin: from 1696
of the wicked
rasha` (Hebrew #7563)
morally wrong; concretely, an (actively) bad person
KJV usage: + condemned, guilty, ungodly, wicked (man), that did wrong.
Pronounce: raw-shaw'
Origin: from 7561
are to lie in 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)
: but the mouth
peh (Hebrew #6310)
the mouth (as the means of blowing), whether literal or figurative (particularly speech); specifically edge, portion or side; adverbially (with preposition) according to
KJV usage: accord(-ing as, -ing to), after, appointment, assent, collar, command(-ment), X eat, edge, end, entry, + file, hole, X in, mind, mouth, part, portion, X (should) say(-ing), sentence, skirt, sound, speech, X spoken, talk, tenor, X to, + two-edged, wish, word.
Pronounce: peh
Origin: from 6284
of the upright
yashar (Hebrew #3477)
straight (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: convenient, equity, Jasher, just, meet(-est), + pleased well right(-eous), straight, (most) upright(-ly, -ness).
Pronounce: yaw-shawr'
Origin: from 3474
shall deliver
natsal (Hebrew #5337)
to snatch away, whether in a good or a bad sense
KJV usage: X at all, defend, deliver (self), escape, X without fail, part, pluck, preserve, recover, rescue, rid, save, spoil, strip, X surely, take (out).
Pronounce: naw-tsal'
Origin: a primitive root
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Prov. 1:11‑19• 11If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;
 12let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, and whole, as those that go down into the pit;
 13we shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
 14cast in thy lot among us; we will all have one purse:
 15--my son, walk not in the way with them, keep back thy foot from their path;
 16for their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.
 17For in vain the net is spread in the sight of anything which hath wings.
 18And these lay wait for their own blood; they lurk secretly for their own lives.
 19So are the paths of every one that is greedy of gain: it taketh away the life of its possessors. (Prov. 1:11‑19)
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2 Sam. 17:1‑4• 1And Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me, I pray, choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David to-night;
 2and I will come upon him while he is weary and weak-handed, and will make him afraid; and all the people that are with him shall flee; and I will smite the king only;
 3and I will bring back all the people to thee. The man whom thou seekest is as if all returned: all the people shall be in peace.
 4And the saying was right in the eyes of Absalom, and in the eyes of all the elders of Israel. (2 Sam. 17:1‑4)
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Isa. 59:7• 7Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths; (Isa. 59:7)
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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. 7:1‑2• 1Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer-fruits, as the grape-gleanings of the vintage. There is no cluster to eat; there is no early fruit which my soul desired.
 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. 7:1‑2)
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Acts 23:12,15• 12And when it was day, the Jews, having banded together, put themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they should kill Paul.
 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 23:12,15)
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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)
the mouth.
Prov. 14:3• 3In the fool's mouth is a rod of pride; but the lips of the wise shall preserve them. (Prov. 14:3)
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Esther 4:7‑14• 7And Mordecai told him of all that had happened to him, and of the sum of money that Haman had promised to pay to the king's treasuries for the Jews, to destroy them.
 8And he gave him a copy of the writing of the decree that had been given at Shushan to destroy them, to shew it to Esther, and to declare it to her, and to charge her that she should go in unto the king, to make supplication to him, and to make request before him, for her people.
 9And Hatach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai.
 10And Esther spoke to Hatach, and gave him commandment unto Mordecai:
 11All the king's servants and the people of the king's provinces do know that whoever, whether man or woman, shall come to the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is *one* law, to put him to death, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live; and I have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty days.
 12And they told Mordecai Esther's words.
 13And Mordecai bade to answer Esther: Imagine not in thy heart that thou shalt escape in the king's house, more than all the Jews.
 14For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there arise relief and deliverance to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father's house shall perish. And who knows whether thou art not come to the kingdom for such a time as this? (Esther 4:7‑14)
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Esther 7:4‑6• 4for we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the adversary could not compensate the king's damage.
 5And king Ahasuerus spoke and said to Esther the queen, Who is he, and where is he that has filled his heart to do so?
 6And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was terrified before the king and the queen. (Esther 7:4‑6)

J. N. Darby Translation

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The words of the wicked are a lying-in-wait for blood; but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.