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Proverbs 20

Prov. 20:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

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The fear
'eymah (Hebrew #367)
from the same as 366; fright; concrete, an idol (as a bugbear)
KJV usage: dread, fear, horror, idol, terrible, terror.
Pronounce: ay-maw'
Origin: or (shortened) remah {ay-maw'}
of a king
melek (Hebrew #4428)
a king
KJV usage: king, royal.
Pronounce: meh'-lek
Origin: from 4427
is as the roaring
naham (Hebrew #5099)
a snarl
KJV usage: roaring.
Pronounce: nah'-ham
Origin: from 5098
of a lion
kphiyr (Hebrew #3715)
a village (as covered in by walls); also a young lion (perhaps as covered with a mane)
KJV usage: (young) lion, village. Compare 3723.
Pronounce: kef-eer'
Origin: from 3722
: whoso provoketh him to anger
`abar (Hebrew #5674)
to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in copulation)
KJV usage: alienate, alter, X at all, beyond, bring (over, through), carry over, (over-)come (on, over), conduct (over), convey over, current, deliver, do away, enter, escape, fail, gender, get over, (make) go (away, beyond, by, forth, his way, in, on, over, through), have away (more), lay, meddle, overrun, make partition, (cause to, give, make to, over) pass(-age, along, away, beyond, by, -enger, on, out, over, through), (cause to, make) + proclaim(-amation), perish, provoke to anger, put away, rage, + raiser of taxes, remove, send over, set apart, + shave, cause to (make) sound, X speedily, X sweet smelling, take (away), (make to) transgress(-or), translate, turn away, (way-)faring man, be wrath.
Pronounce: aw-bar'
Origin: a primitive root
sinneth
chata' (Hebrew #2398)
properly, to miss; hence (figuratively and generally) to sin; by inference, to forfeit, lack, expiate, repent, (causatively) lead astray, condemn
KJV usage: bear the blame, cleanse, commit (sin), by fault, harm he hath done, loss, miss, (make) offend(-er), offer for sin, purge, purify (self), make reconciliation, (cause, make) sin(-ful, -ness), trespass.
Pronounce: khaw-taw'
Origin: a primitive root
against his own soul
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
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King,
Lion,
Soul; Spirit

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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fear.
Prov. 16:14‑15• 14The fury of a king is as messengers of death; but a wise man will pacify it.
 15In the light of the king's countenance is life, and his favour is as a cloud of the latter rain. (Prov. 16:14‑15)
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Prov. 19:12• 12The king's displeasure is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass. (Prov. 19:12)
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Eccl. 10:4• 4If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for quietness pacifieth great offences. (Eccl. 10:4)
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Hos. 11:10• 10They shall walk after Jehovah; he shall roar like a lion; when he shall roar, then the children shall hasten from the west: (Hos. 11:10)
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Amos 3:8• 8The lion hath roared,--who will not fear? The Lord Jehovah hath spoken,--who can but prophesy? (Amos 3:8)
sinneth.
Prov. 8:36• 36but he that sinneth against me doeth violence to his own soul: all they that hate me love death. (Prov. 8:36)
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1 Kings 2:23• 23And king Solomon swore by Jehovah saying, God do so to me, and more also,--Adonijah has spoken this word against his own life! (1 Kings 2:23)
• To resist the power is to resist Him who appointed it, and is to provoke the king to anger, and thus to sin against one’s own soul; for his wrath will be poured out upon the rebellious. (“Proverbs Twenty” by H.A. Ironside)
• Hanun had to prove “the wrath of a king” when he refused his kindness (2 Sam. 10). (“Proverbs Twenty” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion: he that provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.