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Proverbs 6

Prov. 6:17 KJV (With Strong’s)

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δA proud
ruwm (Hebrew #7311)
to be high actively, to rise or raise (in various applications, literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: bring up, exalt (self), extol, give, go up, haughty, heave (up), (be, lift up on, make on, set up on, too) high(-er, one), hold up, levy, lift(-er) up, (be) lofty, (X a-)loud, mount up, offer (up), + presumptuously, (be) promote(-ion), proud, set up, tall(-er), take (away, off, up), breed worms.
Pronounce: room
Origin: a primitive root
look
`ayin (Hebrew #5869)
an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
KJV usage: affliction, outward appearance, + before, + think best, colour, conceit, + be content, countenance, + displease, eye((-brow), (-d), -sight), face, + favour, fountain, furrow (from the margin), X him, + humble, knowledge, look, (+ well), X me, open(-ly), + (not) please, presence, + regard, resemblance, sight, X thee, X them, + think, X us, well, X you(-rselves).
Pronounce: ah'-yin
Origin: probably a primitive word
l, a lying
sheqer (Hebrew #8267)
an untruth; by implication, a sham (often adverbial)
KJV usage: without a cause, deceit(-ful), false(-hood, -ly), feignedly, liar, + lie, lying, vain (thing), wrongfully.
Pronounce: sheh'-ker
Origin: from 8266
m tongue
lashown (Hebrew #3956)
also (in plural) feminine lshonah {lesh-o-naw'}; from 3960; the tongue (of man or animals), used literally (as the instrument of licking, eating, or speech), and figuratively (speech, an ingot, a fork of flame, a cove of water)
KJV usage: + babbler,bay, + evil speaker, language, talker, tongue, wedge.
Pronounce: law-shone'
Origin: or lashon {law-shone'}
, and hands
yad (Hebrew #3027)
a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.), in distinction from 3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great variety of applications, both literally and figuratively, both proximate and remote (as follows)
KJV usage: (+ be) able, X about, + armholes, at, axletree, because of, beside, border, X bounty, + broad, (broken-)handed, X by, charge, coast, + consecrate, + creditor, custody, debt, dominion, X enough, + fellowship, force, X from, hand(-staves, -y work), X he, himself, X in, labour, + large, ledge, (left-)handed, means, X mine, ministry, near, X of, X order, ordinance, X our, parts, pain, power, X presumptuously, service, side, sore, state, stay, draw with strength, stroke, + swear, terror, X thee, X by them, X themselves, X thine own, X thou, through, X throwing, + thumb, times, X to, X under, X us, X wait on, (way-)side, where, + wide, X with (him, me, you), work, + yield, X yourselves.
Pronounce: yawd
Origin: a primitive word
n that shed
shaphak (Hebrew #8210)
to spill forth (blood, a libation, liquid metal; or even a solid, i.e. to mound up); also (figuratively) to expend (life, soul, complaint, money, etc.); intensively, to sprawl out
KJV usage: cast (up), gush out, pour (out), shed(-der, out), slip.
Pronounce: shaw-fak'
Origin: a primitive root
innocent
naqiy (Hebrew #5355)
from 5352; innocent
KJV usage: blameless, clean, clear, exempted, free, guiltless, innocent, quit.
Pronounce: naw-kee'
Origin: or naqiyi (Joel {SI 10004}4{/SI} : {SI 10019}19{/SI}; Jonah 1 : 1{SI 10004}4{/SI}), {naw-kee'}
blood
dam (Hebrew #1818)
blood (as that which when shed causes death) of man or an animal; by analogy, the juice of the grape; figuratively (especially in the plural) bloodshed (i.e. drops of blood)
KJV usage: blood(-y, -guiltiness, (-thirsty), + innocent.
Pronounce: dawm
Origin: from 1826 (compare 119)
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haughty eyes.
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Psa. 18:27• 27For thou savest an afflicted people,{HR}And lofty eyes thou bringest down. (Psa. 18:27)
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Psa. 120:3‑4• 3What shall be given unto thee,{HR}What shall be added unto thee,{HR}O tongue of deceit?
 4A mighty one's arrows sharpened,{HR}With coals of broom. (Psa. 120:3‑4)
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Rev. 22:15• 15Without {i}are{/i} the dogs and the sorcerers and the fornicators and the murderers and the idolaters and every one that loveth and practiceth a lie. (Rev. 22:15)
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2 Kings 24:3‑4• 3{i}Verily, at the commandment of Jehovah it came to pass against Judah, that they should be removed out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done;{/i}
 4{i}and also because of the innocent blood that he had shed; for he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and Jehovah would not pardon.{/i} (2 Kings 24:3‑4)
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Isa. 1:15• 15And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. (Isa. 1:15)

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Ministry on This Verse

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A proud look.
Heb. Haughty eyes.
Prov. 30:13• 13{i}There is a generation,{/i} —{i}how lofty are their eyes,{HR}How their eyelids are lifted up!{HR}{/i} (Prov. 30:13)
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Psa. 10:4• 4The wicked [man] according to the pride of his anger seeketh not;{HR}All his thoughts [are], There is no God. (Psa. 10:4)
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Psa. 18:27• 27For thou savest an afflicted people,{HR}And lofty eyes thou bringest down. (Psa. 18:27)
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Psa. 73:6‑8• 6Therefore hath pride enchained them,{HR}A garment of violence covereth them.
 7Their eyes stand out with fatness,{HR}The imaginations of their heart overflow.
 8They mock and speak wickedly of oppression;{HR}From on high they speak. (Psa. 73:6‑8)
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Psa. 101:5• 5Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour,{HR}Him I will cut off;{HR}The lofty of eyes and proud of heart,{HR}Him will I not suffer. (Psa. 101:5)
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Psa. 131:1• 1A song of the ascents: of David.{HR}Jehovah, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty;{HR}Neither do I meddle (walk) with [things] great{HR}And with [things] too wonderful for me. (Psa. 131:1)
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Isa. 2:11• 11The lofty looks of man shall be brought low, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and Jehovah alone shall be exalted in that day. (Isa. 2:11)
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Isa. 3:9,16• 9The show of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.
 16And Jehovah saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks, and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet: (Isa. 3:9,16)
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1 Peter 5:5• 5Likewise, ye younger, be subject to elders; and all of you bind on humility to one another; because God setteth himself against haughty ones, and giveth grace to lowly. (1 Peter 5:5)
lying.
Prov. 12:22• 22Lying lips [are] an abomination to Jehovah;{HR}But those that deal truly are his delight. (Prov. 12:22)
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Prov. 14:5• 5A faithful witness will not lie;{HR}But a false witness breatheth out lies. (Prov. 14:5)
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Prov. 26:28• 28A lying tongue hateth the injured by it,{HR}And a flattering mouth worketh ruin. (Prov. 26:28)
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Psa. 5:6• 6Thou wilt destroy those that speak lies:{HR}A man of blood and deceit Jehovah abhorreth. (Psa. 5:6)
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Psa. 120:2‑3• 2Jehovah, deliver my soul from a lip of lying,{HR}From a tongue of deceit.
 3What shall be given unto thee,{HR}What shall be added unto thee,{HR}O tongue of deceit? (Psa. 120:2‑3)
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Hos. 4:1‑2• 1{i}Hear the word of Jehovah, ye children of Israel;{/i} for Jehovah hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
 2Swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, burst out, and blood toucheth on blood (Hos. 4:1‑2)
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John 8:44• 44Ye are of your father, the devil, and ye desire to practice the lusts of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and standeth not in the truth, because there is no truth in him: whenever he speaketh the lie, he speaketh out of his own things, because he is a liar, and the father of it. (John 8:44)
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Rev. 22:15• 15Without {i}are{/i} the dogs and the sorcerers and the fornicators and the murderers and the idolaters and every one that loveth and practiceth a lie. (Rev. 22:15)
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Prov. 1:11• 11If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood,{HR}Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause; (Prov. 1:11)
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Deut. 27:25• 25{i}Cursed be he that taketh reward to smite mortally shedding innocent blood! And all the people shall say, Amen.{/i} (Deut. 27:25)
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2 Kings 24:4• 4{i}and also because of the innocent blood that he had shed; for he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and Jehovah would not pardon.{/i} (2 Kings 24:4)
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Isa. 1:15• 15And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. (Isa. 1:15)
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Isa. 59:3‑6• 3For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips are speaking lies, your tongue muttereth wickedness.
 4None sueth in righteousness, none pleadeth in truthfulness. They trust in vanity, and speak falsehood; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
 5They hatch serpents' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
 6Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works; their works [are] works of iniquity, and the act of violence [is] in their hands. (Isa. 59:3‑6)
• Haughty eyes belong not to the one who has been a learner at His feet who is “meek and lowly in heart.” (“Proverbs Six” by H.A. Ironside)
• A lying tongue! How opposed to Him who is Himself the Truth, and who desireth truth in the inward parts. (“Proverbs Six” by H.A. Ironside)
• He is of one ilk who would with his tongue destroy the good name of another with him who would with wicked hands take his brother’s life. (“Proverbs Six” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood;

W. Kelly Translation

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Haughty eyes, a lying tongue,{HR}And hands that shed innocent blood,