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Proverbs 26

Prov. 26:18 KJV (With Strong’s)

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As a mad
lahahh (Hebrew #3856)
also (from the exhaustion of frenzy) to languish
KJV usage: faint, mad.
Pronounce: law-hah'
Origin: a primitive root meaning properly, to burn, i.e. (by implication) to be rabid (figuratively, insane)
man who casteth
yarah (Hebrew #3384)
{yaw-raw'}; a primitive root; properly, to flow as water (i.e. to rain); transitively, to lay or throw (especially an arrow, i.e. to shoot); figuratively, to point out (as if by aiming the finger), to teach
KJV usage: (+) archer, cast, direct, inform, instruct, lay, shew, shoot, teach(-er,-ing), through.
Pronounce: yaw-raw'
Origin: or (2 Chr. 26:15) yara
φfirebrands
ziyqah (Hebrew #2131)
and ziq {zeek}; or zeq {zake}; from 2187; properly, what leaps forth, i.e. flash of fire, or a burning arrow; also (from the original sense of the root) a bond
KJV usage: chain, fetter, firebrand, spark.
Pronounce: zee-kaw'
Origin: (Isa. 50: (feminine)
, arrows
chets (Hebrew #2671)
properly, a piercer, i.e. an arrow; by implication, a wound; figuratively, (of God) thunder-bolt; (by interchange for 6086) the shaft of a spear
KJV usage: + archer, arrow, dart, shaft, staff, wound.
Pronounce: khayts
Origin: from 2686
, and death
maveth (Hebrew #4194)
death (natural or violent); concretely, the dead, their place or state (hades); figuratively, pestilence, ruin
KJV usage: (be) dead((-ly)), death, die(-d).
Pronounce: maw'-veth
Origin: from 4191
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flames, or, sparks.

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Arrows,
Death

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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firebrands.
Heb. flames, or sparks.
arrows.
Prov. 7:23• 23Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life. (Prov. 7:23)
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Prov. 25:18• 18A man that beareth false witness against his neighbor is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow. (Prov. 25:18)
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Gen. 49:23• 23The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: (Gen. 49:23)
• {v.18-19} Deceit in the name of pleasure is as much to be decried as in anything else. Sobriety and a concern for the welfare of one’s neighbors will cause such things to be sedulously avoided. Amusement at the expense of another’s suffering, none but a most thoughtless and selfish person will engage in. See Proverbs 10:23, and 2 Peter 2:13. (“Proverbs Twenty-Six” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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As a madmanh who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death,

JND Translation Notes

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Or "jester."