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Proverbs 6

Prov. 6:16 KJV (With Strong’s)

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These six
shesh (Hebrew #8337)
a primitive number; six (as an overplus (see 7797) beyond five or the fingers of the hand); as ord. sixth
KJV usage: six((-teen, -teenth)), sixth.
Pronounce: shaysh
Origin: masculine shishshah {shish-shaw'}
things doth the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
hate
sane' (Hebrew #8130)
to hate (personally)
KJV usage: enemy, foe, (be) hate(-ful, -r), odious, X utterly.
Pronounce: saw-nay'
Origin: a primitive root
: yea, seven
sheba` (Hebrew #7651)
from 7650; a primitive cardinal number; seven (as the sacred full one); also (adverbially) seven times; by implication, a week; by extension, an indefinite number
KJV usage: (+ by) seven(-fold),-s, (-teen, -teenth), -th, times). Compare 7658.
Pronounce: sheh'-bah
Origin: or (masculine) shibrah {shib-aw'}
are an abomination
tow`ebah (Hebrew #8441)
feminine active participle of 8581; properly, something disgusting (morally), i.e. (as noun) an abhorrence; especially idolatry or (concretely) an idol
KJV usage: abominable (custom, thing), abomination.
Pronounce: to-ay-baw'
Origin: or tonebah {to-ay-baw'}
γunto him
nephesh (Hebrew #5315)
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
KJV usage: any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, X dead(-ly), desire, X (dis-)contented, X fish, ghost, + greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, X jeopardy of) life (X in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-)self, them (your)-selves, + slay, soul, + tablet, they, thing, (X she) will, X would have it.
Pronounce: neh'-fesh
Origin: from 5314
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of his soul.

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Ministry on This Verse

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Prov. 8:13• 13The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate. (Prov. 8:13)
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Prov. 30:18,21,24,29• 18There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not:
 21For three things the earth is disquieted, and for four which it cannot bear:
 24There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise:
 29There be three things which go well, yea, four are comely in going: (Prov. 30:18,21,24,29)
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Amos 1:3,6,9,11• 3Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron:
 6Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they carried away captive the whole captivity, to deliver them up to Edom:
 9Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Tyrus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom, and remembered not the brotherly covenant:
 11Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever: (Amos 1:3,6,9,11)
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Amos 2:1,4,6• 1Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:
 4Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the Lord, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:
 6Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes; (Amos 2:1,4,6)
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Prov. 3:32• 32For the froward is abomination to the Lord: but his secret is with the righteous. (Prov. 3:32)
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Prov. 11:1,20• 1A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight.
 20They that are of a froward heart are abomination to the Lord: but such as are upright in their way are his delight. (Prov. 11:1,20)
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Prov. 15:8‑9• 8The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
 9The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the Lord: but he loveth him that followeth after righteousness. (Prov. 15:8‑9)
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Prov. 17:15• 15He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the Lord. (Prov. 17:15)
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Prov. 20:10,23• 10Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the Lord.
 23Divers weights are an abomination unto the Lord; and a false balance is not good. (Prov. 20:10,23)
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Deut. 18:10‑12• 10There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,
 11Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
 12For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord: and because of these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee. (Deut. 18:10‑12)
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Deut. 23:18• 18Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the Lord thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the Lord thy God. (Deut. 23:18)
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Deut. 24:4• 4Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the Lord: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance. (Deut. 24:4)
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Deut. 25:16• 16For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the Lord thy God. (Deut. 25:16)
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Rev. 21:27• 27And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life. (Rev. 21:27)
unto him.
Heb. of his soul.
Psa. 11:5• 5The Lord trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth. (Psa. 11:5)
• Six he hates in addition to the one already noticed. It is put in as though the worst of them all. (“Proverbs Six” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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These six things doth Jehovah hate, yea, seven are an abomination unto himl:

JND Translation Notes

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Lit. "of his soul."