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Proverbs 4

Prov. 4:24 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Put away
cuwr (Hebrew #5493)
a primitive root; to turn off (literal or figurative)
KJV usage: be(-head), bring, call back, decline, depart, eschew, get (you), go (aside), X grievous, lay away (by), leave undone, be past, pluck away, put (away, down), rebel, remove (to and fro), revolt, X be sour, take (away, off), turn (aside, away, in), withdraw, be without.
Pronounce: soor
Origin: or suwr (Hosea 9:12) {soor}
from thee τa froward
`iqqshuwth (Hebrew #6143)
perversity
KJV usage: X froward.
Pronounce: ik-kesh-ooth'
Origin: from 6141
mouth
peh (Hebrew #6310)
the mouth (as the means of blowing), whether literal or figurative (particularly speech); specifically edge, portion or side; adverbially (with preposition) according to
KJV usage: accord(-ing as, -ing to), after, appointment, assent, collar, command(-ment), X eat, edge, end, entry, + file, hole, X in, mind, mouth, part, portion, X (should) say(-ing), sentence, skirt, sound, speech, X spoken, talk, tenor, X to, + two-edged, wish, word.
Pronounce: peh
Origin: from 6284
, and perverse
lzuwth (Hebrew #3891)
perverseness
KJV usage: perverse.
Pronounce: lez-ooth'
Origin: from 3868
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'}
put far
rachaq (Hebrew #7368)
to widen (in any direction), i.e. (intransitively) recede or (transitively) remove (literally or figuratively, of place or relation)
KJV usage: (a-, be, cast, drive, get, go, keep (self), put, remove, be too, (wander), withdraw) far (away, off), loose, X refrain, very, (be) a good way (off).
Pronounce: raw-khak'
Origin: a primitive root
from thee.
τ
frowardness of mouth, and perverseness of lips.

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Job 11:14• 14If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles. (Job 11:14)
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Ezek. 18:31• 31Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel? (Ezek. 18:31)
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Eph. 4:25‑31• 25Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor: for we are members one of another.
 26Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
 27Neither give place to the devil.
 28Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
 29Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
 30And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
 31Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: (Eph. 4:25‑31)
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Col. 3:8• 8But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. (Col. 3:8)
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James 1:21,26• 21Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
 26If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. (James 1:21,26)
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1 Peter 2:1• 1Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, (1 Peter 2:1)
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Heb. frowardness of mouth, and perverseness of lips.
Prov. 8:8,13• 8All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.
 13The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate. (Prov. 8:8,13)
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Prov. 17:20• 20He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief. (Prov. 17:20)
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1 Tim. 6:5• 5Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself. (1 Tim. 6:5)
• A froward mouth and perverse lips bespeak one who is not in subjection to God. Where His Word has its place in the soul, the lips manifest it. (“Proverbs Four” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Put away from thee perverseness of mouth, and corruptc lips put far from thee.

JND Translation Notes

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Lit. "corruptness of," "inconsistency," or "perverseness of." same root word as ch. 3.32.