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Proverbs 6

Prov. 6:27 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Can a man
'iysh (Hebrew #376)
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
KJV usage: also, another, any (man), a certain, + champion, consent, each, every (one), fellow, (foot-, husband-)man, (good-, great, mighty) man, he, high (degree), him (that is), husband, man(-kind), + none, one, people, person, + steward, what (man) soever, whoso(-ever), worthy. Compare 802.
Pronounce: eesh
Origin: contracted for 582 (or perhaps rather from an unused root meaning to be extant)
take
chathah (Hebrew #2846)
to lay hold of; especially to pick up fire
KJV usage: heap, take (away).
Pronounce: khaw-thaw'
Origin: a primitive root
fire
'esh (Hebrew #784)
fire (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: burning, fiery, fire, flaming, hot.
Pronounce: aysh
Origin: a primitive word
in his bosom
cheyq (Hebrew #2436)
and chowq {khoke}; from an unused root, apparently meaning to inclose; the bosom (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: bosom, bottom, lap, midst, within.
Pronounce: khake
Origin: or cheq {khake}
, and his clothes
beged (Hebrew #899)
a covering, i.e. clothing; also treachery or pillage
KJV usage: apparel, cloth(-es, ing), garment, lap, rag, raiment, robe, X very (treacherously), vesture, wardrobe.
Pronounce: behg'-ed
Origin: from 898
not be burned
saraph (Hebrew #8313)
to be (causatively, set) on fire
KJV usage: (cause to, make a) burn((-ing), up) kindle, X utterly.
Pronounce: saw-raf'
Origin: a primitive root
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Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Job 31:9‑12• 9If my heart have been enticed unto a woman, so that I laid wait at my neighbour's door,
 10Let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down upon her.
 11For this is an infamy; yea, it is an iniquity to be judged by the judges:
 12For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase. (Job 31:9‑12)
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Hos. 7:4‑7• 4They all practise adultery, as an oven heated by the baker: he ceaseth from stirring the fire after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.
 5In the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine: he stretched out his hand to scorners.
 6For they have applied their heart like an oven to their lying in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth like a flaming fire.
 7They are all hot as an oven, and devour their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me. (Hos. 7:4‑7)
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James 3:5• 5Thus also the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. See how little a fire, how large a wood it kindles! (James 3:5)
• How many a dreadful blot upon an otherwise upright and honored life has resulted from what at first was a thoughtless familiarity. (“Proverbs Six” by H.A. Ironside)
• Joseph stood in circumstances far more tempting than those in which David fell. “Shall I do this great evil, and sin against God?” This was what preserved him. This alone will preserve any similarly tempted one. (“Proverbs Six” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his garments not be burned?