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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,{HR}Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause;
 12Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol,{HR}And whole as those that go down into the pit.
 13We shall find all precious substance,{HR}We shall fill our houses with spoil:
 14Cast in thy lot among us;{HR}We will have all one purse.
 15My son, walk not in the way with them,{HR}Keep back thy foot from their path.
 16For their feet run to evil,{HR}And they make haste to shed blood.
 17For in vain is the net spread in the eyes of a bird;
 18And they lay wait for their own blood;{HR}They lurk privily for their own lives.
 19So (are) the paths of every one that is greedy of gain:{HR}It taketh away the life of its owners. (Prov. 1:11‑19)
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2 Sam. 17:1‑4• 1{i}And Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me, I pray, choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David tonight;{/i}
 2{i}and 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;{/i}
 3{i}and 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.{/i}
 4{i}And the saying was right in the eyes of Absalom, and in the eyes of all the elders of Israel.{/i} (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; desolation and destruction [are] in their paths. (Isa. 59:7)
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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. 7:1‑2• 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: my soul desired the first-ripe fruit.
 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. 7:1‑2)
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Acts 23:12,15• 12And when it was day the Jews, having made a combination, put themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.
 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 23:12,15)
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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)
the mouth.
Prov. 14:3• 3In the fool's mouth [is] a rod of pride;{HR}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 unto him, and the exact sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king's treasuries for the Jews, to destroy them.
 8Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given out in Shushan to destroy them, to show [it] unto Esther, and to declare [it] unto her; and to charge her that she should go in unto the king, and to make supplication unto him, and request before him, for her people.
 9And Hathach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai.
 10Then Esther spake unto Hathach, and gave him a message unto Mordecai, saying:
 11All the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinces, do know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, shall come unto the king into the inner court, who is not called, [there is] one law for him, that he be put to death, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty days.
 12And they told to Mordecai Esther's words.
 13Then Mordecai bade them return answer unto Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king's house, more than all the Jews.
 14For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, there shall relief and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father's house shall perish: and who knoweth 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 peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king's damage.
 5Then spake the king Ahasuerus and said unto Esther the queen, Who is he, and where is he, that durst presume in his heart to do so?
 6And Esther said, An adversary and an enemy, even this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid 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.

W. Kelly Translation

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The words of the wicked [are] a lying-in-wait for blood,{HR}But the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.