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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 be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it. (Prov. 9:12)
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Prov. 14:23• 23In all labor there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury. (Prov. 14:23)
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Eccl. 6:7• 7All the labor 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 that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
 12That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing. (1 Thess. 4:11‑12)
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2 Thess. 3:8‑12• 8Neither did we eat any man's bread for nought; but wrought with labor and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you:
 9Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.
 10For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.
 11For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.
 12Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and 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."