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Proverbs 24

Prov. 24:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

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For their heart
leb (Hebrew #3820)
the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything
KJV usage: + care for, comfortably, consent, X considered, courag(-eous), friend(-ly), ((broken-), (hard-), (merry-), (stiff-), (stout-), double) heart((-ed)), X heed, X I, kindly, midst, mind(-ed), X regard((-ed)), X themselves, X unawares, understanding, X well, willingly, wisdom.
Pronounce: labe
Origin: a form of 3824
studieth
hagah (Hebrew #1897)
to murmur (in pleasure or anger); by implication, to ponder
KJV usage: imagine, meditate, mourn, mutter, roar, X sore, speak, study, talk, utter.
Pronounce: daw-gaw'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 1901)
destruction
shod (Hebrew #7701)
from 7736; violence, ravage
KJV usage: desolation, destruction, oppression, robbery, spoil(-ed, -er, - ing), wasting.
Pronounce: shode
Origin: or showd (Job 5:21) {shode}
, and their lips
saphah (Hebrew #8193)
probably from 5595 or 8192 through the idea of termination (compare 5490); the lip (as a natural boundary); by implication, language; by analogy, a margin (of a vessel, water, cloth, etc.)
KJV usage: band, bank, binding, border, brim, brink, edge, language, lip, prating, ((sea-))shore, side, speech, talk, (vain) words.
Pronounce: saw-faw'
Origin: or (in dual and plural) sepheth {sef-eth'}
b talk
dabar (Hebrew #1696)
perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
KJV usage: answer, appoint, bid, command, commune, declare, destroy, give, name, promise, pronounce, rehearse, say, speak, be spokesman, subdue, talk, teach, tell, think, use (entreaties), utter, X well, X work.
Pronounce: daw-bar'
Origin: a primitive root
of mischief
`amal (Hebrew #5999)
toil, i.e. wearing effort; hence, worry, wheth. of body or mind
KJV usage: grievance(-vousness), iniquity, labour, mischief, miserable(-sery), pain(-ful), perverseness, sorrow, toil, travail, trouble, wearisome, wickedness.
Pronounce: aw-mawl'
Origin: from 5998
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Psa. 10:7• 7His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity. (Psa. 10:7)

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Ministry on This Verse

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Prov. 24:8• 8He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a mischievous person. (Prov. 24:8)
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Prov. 6:14• 14Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord. (Prov. 6:14)
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1 Sam. 23:9• 9And David knew that Saul secretly practised mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring hither the ephod. (1 Sam. 23:9)
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Esther 3:6‑7• 6And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had showed him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai.
 7In the first month, that is, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar. (Esther 3:6‑7)
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Job 15:35• 35They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit. (Job 15:35)
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Psa. 7:14• 14Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood. (Psa. 7:14)
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Psa. 10:7• 7His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity. (Psa. 10:7)
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Psa. 28:3• 3Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts. (Psa. 28:3)
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Psa. 36:4• 4He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil. (Psa. 36:4)
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Psa. 64:4‑6• 4That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.
 5They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?
 6They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep. (Psa. 64:4‑6)
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Psa. 140:2• 2Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war. (Psa. 140:2)
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Isa. 59:4• 4None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. (Isa. 59:4)
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Mic. 7:3• 3That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up. (Mic. 7:3)
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Matt. 26:3‑4• 3Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,
 4And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him. (Matt. 26:3‑4)
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Luke 23:20‑21• 20Pilate therefore, willing to release Jesus, spake again to them.
 21But they cried, saying, Crucify him, crucify him. (Luke 23:20‑21)
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Acts 13:10• 10And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord? (Acts 13:10)
• Disappointment and grief must ever be their portion, who hope through iniquity to find happiness. See, out of many instances with which Scripture abounds, the wretched life of Jehoram, king of Judah (2 Chron. 21). (“Proverbs Twenty-Four” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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for their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.