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Proverbs 4

Prov. 4:17 KJV (With Strong’s)

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For they eat
lacham (Hebrew #3898)
to feed on; figuratively, to consume; by implication, to battle (as destruction)
KJV usage: devour, eat, X ever, fight(-ing), overcome, prevail, (make) war(-ring).
Pronounce: law-kham'
Origin: a primitive root
the bread
lechem (Hebrew #3899)
food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it)
KJV usage: ((shew-))bread, X eat, food, fruit, loaf, meat, victuals. See also 1036.
Pronounce: lekh'-em
Origin: from 3898
of wickedness
resha` (Hebrew #7562)
a wrong (especially moral)
KJV usage: iniquity, wicked(-ness).
Pronounce: reh'-shah
Origin: from 7561
, and drink
shathah (Hebrew #8354)
to imbibe (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: X assuredly, banquet, X certainly, drink(-er, -ing), drunk (X -ard), surely. (Prop. intensive of 8248.)
Pronounce: shaw-thaw'
Origin: a primitive root
the wine
yayin (Hebrew #3196)
wine (as fermented); by implication, intoxication
KJV usage: banqueting, wine, wine(-bibber).
Pronounce: yah'-yin
Origin: from an unused root meaning to effervesce
of violence
chamac (Hebrew #2555)
violence; by implication, wrong; by meton. unjust gain
KJV usage: cruel(-ty), damage, false, injustice, X oppressor, unrighteous, violence (against, done), violent (dealing), wrong.
Pronounce: khaw-mawce'
Origin: from 2554
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Cross References

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Prov. 9:17• 17Stolen waters are sweet,{HR}And the bread of secrecy is pleasant. (Prov. 9:17)
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Prov. 20:17• 17Bread of falsehood [is] sweet to man,{HR}But afterward his mouth shall be filled with gravel. (Prov. 20:17)
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Job 24:5‑6• 5Behold, wild asses in the wilderness, they go forth,{HR}Early about their work, after prey;{HR}The desert [is] to him bread for the little ones;
 6In the field they reap his cattle-fodder,{HR}And the vineyard of the wicked they glean. (Job 24:5‑6)
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Psa. 14:4• 4Have they not known, all [the] workers of iniquity,{HR}Eating my people [as] they have eaten bread?{HR}Jehovah they have not called upon. (Psa. 14:4)
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Jer. 5:26‑28• 26For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as fowlers stoop down; they set a trap, they catch men.
 27As a cage full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and have enriched themselves.
 28They are become fat, they shine, yea, they surpass in deeds of wickedness; they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, and they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not adjudge. (Jer. 5:26‑28)
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Ezek. 22:25‑29• 25There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof.
 26Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things; they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they showed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
 27Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
 28And her prophets have daubed them with untempered mortar, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, when Jehovah hath not spoken.
 29The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy; yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully. (Ezek. 22:25‑29)
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Amos 8:4‑6• 4Hear this, ye that pant after the needy, even to cause to fail the poor of the land,
 5saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the Sabbath, that we may set forth wheat? making the ephah small and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances for deceit:
 6that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; and that we may sell the refuse of the wheat. (Amos 8:4‑6)
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Mic. 3:5• 5Thus saith Jehovah concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace! but whoso putteth not into their mouths they prepare war against him: (Mic. 3:5)
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Mic. 6:12• 12For her rich men are full of violence, and her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth. (Mic. 6:12)
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Zeph. 3:3• 3Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow. (Zeph. 3:3)
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Matt. 23:14• 14(Verse not included in this translation). (Matt. 23:14)
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James 5:4‑5• 4Behold, the hire of the labourers who reaped your fields, that is kept back of you crieth out, and the cries of those that reaped entered into the ears of Jehovah of hosts.
 5Ye lived luxuriously on the earth and indulged yourselves; ye nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter. (James 5:4‑5)

J. N. Darby Translation

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For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violencea.

JND Translation Notes

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Lit. "violences."

W. Kelly Translation

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For they eat the bread of wickedness{HR}And drink the wine of violence.