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Proverbs 16

Prov. 16:26 KJV (With Strong’s)

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μHe
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
that laboreth
`amel (Hebrew #6001)
toiling; concretely, a laborer; figuratively, sorrowful
KJV usage: that laboureth, that is a misery, had taken (labour), wicked, workman.
Pronounce: aw-male'
Origin: from 5998
laboreth
`amal (Hebrew #5998)
to toil, i.e. work severely and with irksomeness
KJV usage: (take) labour (in).
Pronounce: aw-mal'
Origin: a primitive root
for himself; for his 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
νcraveth
'akaph (Hebrew #404)
apparently meaning to curve (as with a burden); to urge
KJV usage: crave.
Pronounce: aw-kaf'
Origin: a primitive root
it of him.
μ
The soul of him that.
ν
boweth unto.

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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He.
Heb. The soul of him.
laboureth.
Prov. 9:12• 12If thou art wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself; and if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it. (Prov. 9:12)
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Prov. 14:23• 23In all labour there is profit; but the talk of the lips tendeth only to want. (Prov. 14:23)
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Eccl. 6:7• 7All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled. (Eccl. 6:7)
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1 Thess. 4:11‑12• 11and to seek earnestly to be quiet and mind your own affairs, and work with your own hands, even as we charged you,
 12that ye may walk reputably towards those without, and may have need of no one. (1 Thess. 4:11‑12)
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2 Thess. 3:8‑12• 8nor have we eaten bread from any one without cost; but in toil and hardship working night and day not to be chargeable to any one of you:
 9not that we have not the right, but that we might give ourselves as an example to you, in order to your imitating us.
 10For also when we were with you we enjoined you this, that if any man does not like to work, neither let him eat.
 11For we hear that there are some walking among you disorderly, not working at all, but busybodies.
 12Now such we enjoin and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that working quietly they eat their own bread. (2 Thess. 3:8‑12)
craveth it of him.
Heb. boweth unto him.
• It is because of his desire to be satisfied with the fruits of his toil that the laborer pursues his occupation. His appetite craves it of him, and so he presses on in his service. This is as God ordained when the fall had shut man out of the garden of delight, and in the sweat of his face he was commanded to eat his bread. (“Proverbs Sixteen” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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The appetited of the labourer laboureth for him, for his mouth urgeth him on.

JND Translation Notes

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Lit. "soul."