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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] his destruction,{HR}And his lips [are] a snare to his soul. (Prov. 18:7)
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Lev. 5:15• 15If any one commit a perfidy, and sin inadvertently in the holy things of Jehovah, then he shall bring his trespass offering to Jehovah, a ram without blemish out of the flock, according to thine estimation by shekels of silver after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering. (Lev. 5:15)
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Lev. 22:10‑15• 10No stranger shall eat the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest, or a hired servant shall not eat the holy thing.
 11But if the priest buy a person with his money, he shall eat of it, and he that is born in his house; they shall eat of his meat.
 12If the priest's daughter also belong to a strange man, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things.
 13But if the priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned to her father's house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father's meat; but no stranger shall eat of it.
 14And if a man eat the holy thing unwittingly, then he shall put the fifth thereof to it, and shall offer [it] to the priest with the holy thing.
 15And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which they offer to Jehovah; (Lev. 22:10‑15)
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Lev. 27:30• 30And all the tithe of the land, of the seed of the land, [or] of the fruit of the tree, [is] Jehovah's, holy to Jehovah. (Lev. 27:30)
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Mal. 3:8‑10• 8Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
 9Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.
 10Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith Jehovah of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. (Mal. 3:8‑10)
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Lev. 27:9‑10,31• 9And if it be] a beast of which men offer an offering to Jehovah, all that they give of such to Jehovah shall be holy.
 10They shall not alter it nor change it; a good for a bad nor 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 a man will redeem [aught] of his tithe, he shall add to it the fifth thereof. (Lev. 27:9‑10,31)
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Num. 30:2‑16• 2If a man vow a vow unto Jehovah, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.
 3If a woman also vow a vow unto Jehovah, and bind herself by a bond, being 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 hold his peace 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;{HR}For he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou vowest.
 5Better is it that thou shouldest not vow,{HR}Than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
 6Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin;{HR}Neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error:{HR}Wherefore should God be angry at thy voice,{HR}And destroy the work of thy hands? (Eccl. 5:4‑6)
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Matt. 5:33• 33Again ye heard that it was said to the ancients, Thou shalt not swear falsely, but shalt render to the Lord thine oaths. (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."

W. Kelly Translation

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[It is] a snare to a man rashly to say,{HR}[It is] holy, and after vows to make inquiry.