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Proverbs 17

Prov. 17:23 KJV (With Strong’s)

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A 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
man taketh
laqach (Hebrew #3947)
to take (in the widest variety of applications)
KJV usage: accept, bring, buy, carry away, drawn, fetch, get, infold, X many, mingle, place, receive(-ing), reserve, seize, send for, take (away, -ing, up), use, win.
Pronounce: law-kakh'
Origin: a primitive root
a gift
shachad (Hebrew #7810)
a donation (venal or redemptive)
KJV usage: bribe(-ry), gift, present, reward.
Pronounce: shakh'-ad
Origin: from 7809
out of the bosom
cheyq (Hebrew #2436)
and chowq {khoke}; from an unused root, apparently meaning to inclose; the bosom (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: bosom, bottom, lap, midst, within.
Pronounce: khake
Origin: or cheq {khake}
to pervert
natah (Hebrew #5186)
to stretch or spread out; by implication, to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of application (as follows)
KJV usage: + afternoon, apply, bow (down, - ing), carry aside, decline, deliver, extend, go down, be gone, incline, intend, lay, let down, offer, outstretched, overthrown, pervert, pitch, prolong, put away, shew, spread (out), stretch (forth, out), take (aside), turn (aside, away), wrest, cause to yield.
Pronounce: naw-taw'
Origin: a primitive root
the ways
'orach (Hebrew #734)
a well-trodden road (literally or figuratively); also a caravan
KJV usage: manner, path, race, rank, traveller, troop, (by-, high-)way.
Pronounce: o'-rakh
Origin: from 732
of judgment
mishpat (Hebrew #4941)
properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, individual or collective), including the act, the place, the suit, the crime, and the penalty; abstractly, justice, including a participant's right or privilege (statutory or customary), or even a style
KJV usage: + adversary, ceremony, charge, X crime, custom, desert, determination, discretion, disposing, due, fashion, form, to be judged, judgment, just(-ice, -ly), (manner of) law(-ful), manner, measure, (due) order, ordinance, right, sentence, usest, X worthy, + wrong.
Pronounce: mish-pawt'
Origin: from 8199
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Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Prov. 17:8• 8A gift is a precious stone in the eyes of the possessor: whithersoever it turneth it prospereth. (Prov. 17:8)
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Prov. 18:16• 16A man's gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men. (Prov. 18:16)
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Prov. 21:14• 14A gift in secret pacifieth anger; and a present in the bosom, vehement fury. (Prov. 21:14)
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Ex. 23:8• 8And thou shalt take no bribe; for the bribe blindeth those whose eyes are open, and perverteth the words of the righteous. (Ex. 23:8)
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Deut. 16:19• 19Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a bribe; for the bribe blindeth the eyes of the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous. (Deut. 16:19)
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1 Sam. 8:3• 3And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted justice. (1 Sam. 8:3)
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1 Sam. 12:3• 3Here I am: testify against me before Jehovah, and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I injured? or of whose hand have I received any ransom and blinded mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it to you. (1 Sam. 12:3)
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Isa. 1:23• 23thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves; every one loveth presents, and hunteth after rewards; they judge not the fatherless, and the cause of the widow cometh not unto them. (Isa. 1:23)
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Ezek. 22:12• 12In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast overreached thy neighbours by oppression, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord Jehovah. (Ezek. 22:12)
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Mic. 7:3• 3Both hands are for evil, to do it well. The prince asketh, and the judge is there for a reward; and the great man uttereth his soul's greed: and together they combine it. (Mic. 7:3)
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Mark 14:10‑11• 10And Judas Iscariote, one of the twelve, went away to the chief priests that he might deliver him up to them;
 11and they, when they heard it, rejoiced, and promised him to give money. And he sought how he could opportunely deliver him up. (Mark 14:10‑11)
• Secretly the lawbreaker, conscious of his evildoing, would endeavor, by a gift, to bribe those who are called to sit in judgment on his crimes. Such a course is a tacit acknowledgment of guilt. It is hard indeed to deal faithfully with a man to whom one is indebted for a favor. (“Proverbs Seventeen” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom, to pervert the paths of judgment.