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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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Prov. 1:11• 11If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: (Prov. 1:11)
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1 Sam. 9:11• 11And as they went up the hill to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said unto 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 upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod.
19And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children 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• 20Now therefore, O king, come down according to all the desire of thy soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver him into the king's hand.
21And Saul said, Blessed be ye of the Lord; for ye have compassion on me.
22Go, I pray you, prepare yet, and know and see his place where his haunt is, and who hath seen him there: for it is told me that he dealeth very subtilly.
23See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me with the certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out throughout all 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 murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.
9He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
10He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor 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, when they wait for my soul. (Psa. 56:6)
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Psa. 59:3• 3For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O Lord. (Psa. 59:3)
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Psa. 140:5• 5The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah. (Psa. 140:5)
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Jer. 11:19• 19But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had 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 consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him. (Matt. 26:4)
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Acts 9:24• 24But their laying await was known of Saul. And they watched the gates day and night to kill him. (Acts 9:24)
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Acts 23:16• 16And when Paul's sister's son heard of their lying in wait, he went and entered into the castle, and told Paul. (Acts 23:16)
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Acts 25:3• 3And desired favor against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying wait in the way to kill him. (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.