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Proverbs 26

Prov. 26:27 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Whosoo diggeth
karah (Hebrew #3738)
properly, to dig; figuratively, to plot; generally, to bore or open
KJV usage: dig, X make (a banquet), open.
Pronounce: kaw-raw'
Origin: a primitive root
a pit
shachath (Hebrew #7845)
a pit (especially as a trap); figuratively, destruction
KJV usage: corruption, destruction, ditch, grave, pit.
Pronounce: shakh'-ath
Origin: from 7743
shall fall
naphal (Hebrew #5307)
to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
KJV usage: be accepted, cast (down, self, (lots), out), cease, die, divide (by lot), (let) fail, (cause to, let, make, ready to) fall (away, down, -en, -ing), fell(-ing), fugitive, have (inheritance), inferior, be judged (by mistake for 6419), lay (along), (cause to) lie down, light (down), be (X hast) lost, lying, overthrow, overwhelm, perish, present(-ed, -ing), (make to) rot, slay, smite out, X surely, throw down.
Pronounce: naw-fal'
Origin: a primitive root
therein: and he that rolleth
galal (Hebrew #1556)
to roll (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: commit, remove, roll (away, down, together), run down, seek occasion, trust, wallow.
Pronounce: gaw-lal'
Origin: a primitive root
a stone
'eben (Hebrew #68)
a stone
KJV usage: + carbuncle, + mason, + plummet, (chalk-, hail-, head-, sling-)stone(-ny), (divers) weight(-s).
Pronounce: eh'-ben
Origin: from the root of 1129 through the meaning to build
, it will return
shuwb (Hebrew #7725)
to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); generally to retreat; often adverbial, again
KJV usage: ((break, build, circumcise, dig, do anything, do evil, feed, lay down, lie down, lodge, make, rejoice, send, take, weep)) X again, (cause to) answer (+ again), X in any case (wise), X at all, averse, bring (again, back, home again), call (to mind), carry again (back), cease, X certainly, come again (back), X consider, + continually, convert, deliver (again), + deny, draw back, fetch home again, X fro, get (oneself) (back) again, X give (again), go again (back, home), (go) out, hinder, let, (see) more, X needs, be past, X pay, pervert, pull in again, put (again, up again), recall, recompense, recover, refresh, relieve, render (again), requite, rescue, restore, retrieve, (cause to, make to) return, reverse, reward, + say nay, send back, set again, slide back, still, X surely, take back (off), (cause to, make to) turn (again, self again, away, back, back again, backward, from, off), withdraw.
Pronounce: shoob
Origin: a primitive root
upon him.
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Psa. 7:15‑16• 15He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
 16His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate. (Psa. 7:15‑16)

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Ministry on This Verse

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diggeth.
Prov. 28:10• 10Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good things in possession. (Prov. 28:10)
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Esther 7:10• 10So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified. (Esther 7:10)
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Psa. 7:15‑16• 15He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
 16His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate. (Psa. 7:15‑16)
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Psa. 9:15• 15The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken. (Psa. 9:15)
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Psa. 10:2• 2The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined. (Psa. 10:2)
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Psa. 57:6• 6They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah. (Psa. 57:6)
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Eccl. 10:8• 8He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him. (Eccl. 10:8)
• Having digged a pit for his neighbor, he shall fall into it himself, as did the fawning sycophant Haman, who by flattery and apparent zeal for the honor of Ahasuerus won from him permission to destroy all the Jews, but was discovered in his perfidy, and hanged on the gallows he had made for Mordecai. He was as one who had rolled a stone up a hillside, which, breaking loose, returned with crushing force upon him. (“Proverbs Twenty-Six” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein; and he that rolleth a stone, it shall return upon him.