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Proverbs 23

Prov. 23:13 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Withhold
mana` (Hebrew #4513)
to debar (negatively or positively) from benefit or injury
KJV usage: deny, keep (back), refrain, restrain, withhold.
Pronounce: maw-nah'
Origin: a primitive root
not correction
muwcar (Hebrew #4148)
properly, chastisement; figuratively, reproof, warning or instruction; also restraint
KJV usage: bond, chastening ((-eth)), chastisement, check, correction, discipline, doctrine, instruction, rebuke.
Pronounce: moo-sawr'
Origin: from 3256
from the child
na`ar (Hebrew #5288)
(concretely) a boy (as active), from the age of infancy to adolescence; by implication, a servant; also (by interch. of sex), a girl (of similar latitude in age)
KJV usage: babe, boy, child, damsel (from the margin), lad, servant, young (man).
Pronounce: nah'-ar
Origin: from 5287
: for if thou beatest
nakah (Hebrew #5221)
to strike (lightly or severely, literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: beat, cast forth, clap, give (wounds), X go forward, X indeed, kill, make (slaughter), murderer, punish, slaughter, slay(-er, -ing), smite(-r, -ing), strike, be stricken, (give) stripes, X surely, wound.
Pronounce: naw-kaw'
Origin: a primitive root
him with the rod
shebet (Hebrew #7626)
a scion, i.e. (literally) a stick (for punishing, writing, fighting, ruling, walking, etc.) or (figuratively) a clan
KJV usage: X correction, dart, rod, sceptre, staff, tribe.
Pronounce: shay'-bet
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to branch off
, he shall not die
muwth (Hebrew #4191)
causatively, to kill
KJV usage: X at all, X crying, (be) dead (body, man, one), (put to, worthy of) death, destroy(-er), (cause to, be like to, must) die, kill, necro(-mancer), X must needs, slay, X surely, X very suddenly, X in (no) wise.
Pronounce: mooth
Origin: a primitive root: to die (literally or figuratively)
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Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Prov. 13:24• 24He that spareth his rod hateth his son;{HR}But he that loveth him seeketh him early with discipline. (Prov. 13:24)
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Prov. 19:18• 18Chasten thy son, seeing there is hope;{HR}And let not thy heart cause him to die. (Prov. 19:18)
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Prov. 29:15,17• 15{i}The rod and reproof give wisdom;{HR}But a child left [to himself]{HR}Bringeth his mother to shame.{/i}
 17{i}Chasten thy son, and he shall give thee rest,{HR}And shall give delight unto thy soul.{/i} (Prov. 29:15,17)
• See note on Proverbs 19:18. Discipline, administered seasonably (not in harshness, or undue severity), is for the profit of the child. In this way, by means of present suffering, he will be preserved from the ruin and wretchedness which are bound to follow a life of self-seeking and unsubdued, perverse will. (“Proverbs Twenty-Three” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Withhold not correction from the child; for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die:

W. Kelly Translation

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Withhold not correction from the child:{HR}If thou beat him with the rod, he shall not die;