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Proverbs 20

Prov. 20:25 KJV (With Strong’s)

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It is a snare
mowqesh (Hebrew #4170)
from 3369; a noose (for catching animals) (literally or figuratively): by implication, a hook (for the nose)
KJV usage: be ensnared, gin, (is) snare(-d), trap.
Pronounce: mo-kashe'
Origin: or moqesh {mo-kashe'}
to the man
'adam (Hebrew #120)
ruddy i.e. a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.)
KJV usage: X another, + hypocrite, + common sort, X low, man (mean, of low degree), person.
Pronounce: aw-dawm'
Origin: from 119
who devoureth
yala` (Hebrew #3216)
to blurt or utter inconsiderately
KJV usage: devour.
Pronounce: yaw-lah'
Origin: a primitive root
that which is holy
qodesh (Hebrew #6944)
a sacred place or thing; rarely abstract, sanctity
KJV usage: consecrated (thing), dedicated (thing), hallowed (thing), holiness, (X most) holy (X day, portion, thing), saint, sanctuary.
Pronounce: ko'-desh
Origin: from 6942
, and after
'achar (Hebrew #310)
properly, the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjunction, after (in various senses)
KJV usage: after (that, -ward), again, at, away from, back (from, -side), behind, beside, by, follow (after, -ing), forasmuch, from, hereafter, hinder end, + out (over) live, + persecute, posterity, pursuing, remnant, seeing, since, thence(-forth), when, with.
Pronounce: akh-ar'
Origin: from 309
vows
neder (Hebrew #5088)
from 5087; a promise (to God); also (concretely) a thing promised
KJV usage: vow((-ed)).
Pronounce: neh'-der
Origin: or neder {nay'-der}
to make inquiry
baqar (Hebrew #1239)
properly, to plough, or (generally) break forth, i.e. (figuratively) to inspect, admire, care for, consider
KJV usage: (make) inquire (-ry), (make) search, seek out.
Pronounce: baw-kar
Origin: a primitive root
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Ministry on This Verse

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a snare.
Prov. 18:7• 7A fool's mouth is destruction to him, and his lips are a snare to his soul. (Prov. 18:7)
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Lev. 5:15• 15If any one act unfaithfully and sin through inadvertence in the holy things of Jehovah, then he shall bring his trespass-offering to Jehovah, a ram without blemish out of the small cattle, according to thy valuation by shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass-offering. (Lev. 5:15)
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Lev. 22:10‑15• 10And no stranger shall eat the holy thing; the sojourner with the priest, and the hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.
 11But if a priest buy any one for money, he may eat of it, and he that is born in his house: they may eat of his food.
 12And a priest's daughter who is married to a stranger may not eat of the heave-offering of the holy things.
 13But a priest's daughter that becometh a widow, or is divorced, and hath no seed, and returneth unto her father's house, as in her youth, she may eat of her father's food; but no stranger shall eat thereof.
 14And if a man eat of a holy thing through inadvertence, then he shall put the fifth part thereof unto it, and shall give it unto the priest with the holy thing.
 15And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel which they offer unto Jehovah, (Lev. 22:10‑15)
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Lev. 27:30• 30And as to every tithe of the land, of the seed of the land, and of the fruit of the tree, it is Jehovah's: it is holy to Jehovah. (Lev. 27:30)
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Mal. 3:8‑10• 8Will a man rob God? But ye rob me. And ye say, Wherein do we rob thee? In tithes and heave-offerings.
 9Ye are cursed with a curse; and me ye rob, even this whole nation.
 10Bring the whole tithe into the treasure-house, that there may be food in my house, and prove me now herewith, saith Jehovah of hosts, if I open not to you the windows of the heavens, and pour you out a blessing, till there be no place for it. (Mal. 3:8‑10)
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Lev. 27:9‑10,31• 9And if it be a beast whereof men bring an offering unto Jehovah, all that they give of such unto Jehovah shall be holy.
 10They shall not alter it nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good; and if he at all change beast for beast, then it and the exchange thereof shall be holy.
 31And if any one will at all redeem of his tithes, he shall add thereto the fifth thereof. (Lev. 27:9‑10,31)
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Num. 30:2‑16• 2If a man vow a vow to Jehovah, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word; according to all that hath gone out of his mouth shall he do.
 3If a woman also vow a vow to Jehovah, and bind herself by a bond, in her father's house in her youth,
 4and her father hear her vow, and her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father shall be silent at her, then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand.
 5But if her father prohibited her in the day that he heard, none of her vows, or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand; and Jehovah shall pardon her, because her father prohibited her.
 6And if she have a husband, when she hath her vow upon her or ought that hath passed her lips wherewith she hath bound her soul,
 7and her husband hear it and be silent at her in the day that he heareth it, then her vows shall stand, and her bonds wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.
 8But if her husband prohibit her on the day that he heareth it, and annul her vow which is upon her, and what hath passed her lips, wherewith she hath bound her soul, then Jehovah shall pardon her.
 9But the vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced,--everything wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand against her.
 10And if she have vowed in her husband's house, or have bound her soul by an oath with a bond,
 11and her husband have heard it, and been silent at her, and hath not prohibited her, then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand.
 12But if her husband have expressly annulled them on the day that he heard them, then nothing of that which is gone out of her lips as to her vows or the bond on her soul, shall stand: her husband hath annulled them; and Jehovah will pardon her.
 13Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband can establish it, or her husband can annul it.
 14And if her husband be altogether silent at her from day to day, then he hath established all her vows or all her bonds which are upon her; he hath confirmed them, for he hath been silent at her in the day that he heard them.
 15But if he in any way annul them after he hath heard them, then he shall bear her iniquity.
 16These are the statutes, which Jehovah commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between a father and his daughter, in her youth in her father's house. (Num. 30:2‑16)
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Eccl. 5:4‑6• 4When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.
 5Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
 6Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an inadvertence. Wherefore should God be wroth at thy voice, and destroy the work of thy hands? (Eccl. 5:4‑6)
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Matt. 5:33• 33Again, ye have heard that it has been said to the ancients, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt render to the Lord what thou hast sworn. (Matt. 5:33)
• (Ecc. 5:4-7). The practice of making vows seems to be clearly contrary to the spirit of the Christian dispensation, in which grace is reigning. Under law, when God was asking something of man, it was quite in keeping to make such particular pledges. The vow of Paul was evidently that of a Nazarite, taken prior to his conversion (Acts 18:18). It would therefore be of all-importance to make sure that such a promise was according to the mind of God before making it. See Jephthah’s rash vow, and its terrible consequences (Judges 11:30-40). (“Proverbs Twenty” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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It is a snare to a man rashly to say, It is hallowedi, and after vows to make inquiry.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "to appropriate to himself a holy thing."