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Proverbs 24

Prov. 24:15 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Lay not wait
'arab (Hebrew #693)
to lurk
KJV usage: (lie in) ambush(-ment), lay (lie in) wait.
Pronounce: aw-rab'
Origin: a primitive root
, O 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, against the dwelling
naveh (Hebrew #5116)
from 5115; (adjectively) at home; hence (by implication of satisfaction) lovely; also (noun) a home, of God (temple), men (residence), flocks (pasture), or wild animals (den)
KJV usage: comely, dwelling (place), fold, habitation, pleasant place, sheepcote, stable, tarried.
Pronounce: naw-veh'
Origin: or (feminine) navah {naw-vaw'}
of the righteous
tsaddiyq (Hebrew #6662)
just
KJV usage: just, lawful, righteous (man).
Pronounce: tsad-deek'
Origin: from 6663
; spoil
shadad (Hebrew #7703)
properly, to be burly, i.e. (figuratively) powerful (passively, impregnable); by implication, to ravage
KJV usage: dead, destroy(-er), oppress, robber, spoil(-er), X utterly, (lay) waste.
Pronounce: shaw-dad'
Origin: a primitive root
not his resting place
rebets (Hebrew #7258)
a couch or place of repose
KJV usage: where each lay, lie down in, resting place.
Pronounce: reh'-bets
Origin: from 7257
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Lay.
Prov. 1:11• 11If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause; (Prov. 1:11)
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1 Sam. 9:11• 11As they went up the ascent to the city, they met maidens going forth to draw water; and they said to them, Is the seer here? (1 Sam. 9:11)
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1 Sam. 22:18‑19• 18And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall on the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and fell on the priests, and put to death that day eighty-five persons who wore the linen ephod.
19And Nob, the city of the priests, he smote with the edge of the sword, both men and women, infants and sucklings, and oxen, and asses, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.
(1 Sam. 22:18‑19)
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1 Sam. 23:20‑23• 20And now, O king, come down according to all the desire of thy soul to come down; and it will be for us to deliver him up into the king's hand.
21And Saul said, Blessed be ye of Jehovah; for ye have compassion upon me.
22Go, I pray you, make yet more sure, and know and see his place where his track is, who has seen him there; for it is told me that he deals very subtilly.
23And see, and ascertain all the lurking-places where he hides himself, and come ye again to me with sure information, that I may go with you; and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out throughout the thousands of Judah.
(1 Sam. 23:20‑23)
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Psa. 10:8‑10• 8He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages; in the secret places doth he slay the innocent: his eyes watch for the wretched.
9He lieth in wait secretly, like a lion in his thicket; he lieth in wait to catch the afflicted: he doth catch the afflicted, drawing him into his net.
10He croucheth, he boweth down, that the wretched may fall by his strong ones.
(Psa. 10:8‑10)
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Psa. 37:32• 32The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him: (Psa. 37:32)
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Psa. 56:6• 6They gather themselves together, they hide themselves; they mark my steps, because they wait for my soul. (Psa. 56:6)
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Psa. 59:3• 3For behold, they lie in wait for my soul; strong ones are gathered against me: not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O Jehovah. (Psa. 59:3)
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Psa. 140:5• 5The proud have hidden a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the way-side; they have set traps for me. Selah. (Psa. 140:5)
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Jer. 11:19• 19And I was like a tame lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I knew not that they devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered. (Jer. 11:19)
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Matt. 26:4• 4and took counsel together in order that they might seize Jesus by subtlety and kill him; (Matt. 26:4)
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Acts 9:24• 24But their plot became known to Saul. And they watched also the gates both day and night, that they might kill him; (Acts 9:24)
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Acts 23:16• 16But Paul's sister's son, having heard of the lying in wait, came and entered into the fortress and reported it to Paul. (Acts 23:16)
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Acts 25:3• 3asking as a grace against him that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying people in wait to kill him on the way. (Acts 25:3)
spoil.

J. N. Darby Translation

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Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; lay not waste his resting-place.