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Psalm 15

Psa. 15:3 KJV (With Strong’s)

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He that backbiteth
ragal (Hebrew #7270)
to walk along; but only in specifically, applications, to reconnoiter, to be a tale-bearer (i.e. slander); also (as denominative from 7272) to lead about
KJV usage: backbite, search, slander, (e-)spy (out), teach to go, view.
Pronounce: raw-gal'
Origin: a primitive root
not with his 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'}
, nor doeth
`asah (Hebrew #6213)
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application (as follows)
KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast, (fight-)ing man, + finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, + hinder, hold ((a feast)), X indeed, + be industrious, + journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely, take, X thoroughly, trim, X very, + vex, be (warr-)ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Pronounce: aw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
evil
ra` (Hebrew #7451)
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
KJV usage: adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, + displease(-ure), distress, evil((- favouredness), man, thing), + exceedingly, X great, grief(-vous), harm, heavy, hurt(-ful), ill (favoured), + mark, mischief(-vous), misery, naught(-ty), noisome, + not please, sad(-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked(-ly, -ness, one), worse(-st), wretchedness, wrong. (Incl. feminine raaah; as adjective or noun.).
Pronounce: rah
Origin: from 7489
to his neighbor
rea` (Hebrew #7453)
from 7462; an associate (more or less close)
KJV usage: brother, companion, fellow, friend, husband, lover, neighbour, X (an-)other.
Pronounce: ray'-ah
Origin: or reya2 {ray'-ah}
, nor φtaketh up
nasa' (Hebrew #5375)
a primitive root; to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absol. and rel. (as follows)
KJV usage: accept, advance, arise, (able to, (armor), suffer to) bear(-er, up), bring (forth), burn, carry (away), cast, contain, desire, ease, exact, exalt (self), extol, fetch, forgive, furnish, further, give, go on, help, high, hold up, honorable (+ man), lade, lay, lift (self) up, lofty, marry, magnify, X needs, obtain, pardon, raise (up), receive, regard, respect, set (up), spare, stir up, + swear, take (away, up), X utterly, wear, yield.
Pronounce: naw-saw'
Origin: or nacah (Psalm 4 : 6 (7)) {naw-saw'}
a reproach
cherpah (Hebrew #2781)
contumely, disgrace, the pudenda
KJV usage: rebuke, reproach(-fully), shame.
Pronounce: kher-paw'
Origin: from 2778
against his neighbor
qarowb (Hebrew #7138)
from 7126; near (in place, kindred or time)
KJV usage: allied, approach, at hand, + any of kin, kinsfold(-sman), (that is) near (of kin), neighbour, (that is) next, (them that come) nigh (at hand), more ready, short(-ly).
Pronounce: kaw-robe'
Origin: or qarob {kaw-robe'}
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φ
or, receiveth, or, endureth.

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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backbiteth.
Psa. 101:5‑8• 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.
 6Mine eyes [shall be] on the faithful of the land to dwell with me;{HR}He that walketh in an upright way shall serve me.
 7He that doeth guile shall not dwell within my house;{HR}He that speaketh falsehoods shall not be established before mine eyes.
 8Morning by morning (in the mornings) will I cut off all the wicked of the land,{HR}To destroy from the city of Jehovah all doers of iniquity. (Psa. 101:5‑8)
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Ex. 23:1‑33• 1{i}Thou shalt not accept a false report; extend not thy hand to the wicked, to be an unrighteous witness.{/i}
 2{i}Thou shalt not follow the multitude for evil; neither shalt thou answer in a cause, to go after the multitude to pervert judgment.{/i}
 3{i}Neither shalt thou favour a poor man in his cause.{/i}
 4{i}—If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt certainly bring it back to him.{/i}
 5{i}If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under its burden, beware of leaving it to him: thou shalt certainly loosen it with him.{/i}
 6{i}Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of thy poor in his cause.{/i}
 7{i}Thou shalt keep far from the cause of falsehood; and the innocent and righteous slay not; for I will not justify the wicked.{/i}
 8{i}And thou shalt take no bribe; for the bribe blindeth those whose eyes are open, and perverteth the words of the righteous.{/i}
 9{i}And the stranger thou shalt not oppress; for ye know the spirit of the stranger, for ye have been strangers in the land of Egypt.{/i}
 10{i}And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and gather in its produce;{/i}
 11{i}but in the seventh thou shalt let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of thy people may eat of it; and what they leave, the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thine olive-tree.{/i}
 12{i}—Six days thou shalt do thy work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest; that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger may be refreshed.{/i}
 13{i}And ye shall be on your guard as to everything that I have said unto you; and shall make no mention of the name of other gods—it shall not be heard in thy mouth.{/i}
 14{i}Thrice in the year thou shalt celebrate a feast to me.{/i}
 15{i}Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread, (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I have commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt; and none shall appear in my presence empty;){/i}
 16{i}and the feast of harvest, the first-fruits of thy labours which thou hast sown in the field, and the feast of in-gathering, at the end of the year, when thou gatherest in thy labours out of the field.{/i}
 17{i}Three times in the year all thy males shall appear in the presence of the Lord Jehovah.{/i}
 18{i}Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my feast remain all night until the morning.{/i}
 19{i}The first of the first-fruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother's milk.{/i}
 20{i}Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee to the place that I have prepared.{/i}
 21{i}Be careful in his presence, and hearken unto his voice: do not provoke him, for he will not forgive your transgressions; for my name is in him.{/i}
 22{i}But if thou shalt diligently hearken unto his voice, and do all that I shall say, then I will be an enemy to thine enemies, and an adversary to thine adversaries.{/i}
 23{i}For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites; and I will cut them off.{/i}
 24{i}Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their deeds; but thou shalt utterly destroy them, and utterly shatter their statues.{/i}
 25{i}And ye shall serve Jehovah your God; and he shall bless thy bread and thy water; and I will take sickness away from thy midst.{/i}
 26{i}There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land; the number of thy days will I fulfil.{/i}
 27{i}I will send my fear before thee, and confound every people to which thou comest, and will make all thine enemies turn their back to thee.{/i}
 28{i}And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.{/i}
 29{i}I will not drive them out from before thee in one year: lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.{/i}
 30{i}By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou art fruitful, and possess the land.{/i}
 31{i}And I will set thy bounds from the Red Sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness unto the river; for I will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, that thou mayest dispossess them from before thee.{/i}
 32{i}Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.{/i}
 33{i}They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me; for if thou serve their gods, it is sure to be a snare unto thee.{/i} (Ex. 23:1‑33)
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Lev. 19:16• 16Thou shalt not go about a tale-bearer among thy people; nor shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I [am] Jehovah. (Lev. 19:16)
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Jer. 9:4‑9• 4{i}Take ye heed every one of his friend, and confide not in any brother; for every brother only supplanteth, and every friend goeth about with slander.{/i}
 5{i}And they act deceitfully every one with his neighbour, and speak not the truth: they teach their tongue to speak falsehood, they weary themselves with perverse dealing.{/i}
 6{i}Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith Jehovah.{/i}
 7{i}Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how else could I do for the daughter of my people?{/i}
 8{i}Their tongue is a murderous arrow; it speaketh deceit. A man speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in his heart he layeth his ambush.{/i}
 9{i}Shall I not visit them for these things? saith Jehovah; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?{/i} (Jer. 9:4‑9)
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Rom. 1:30• 30slanderers, God-hated, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, (Rom. 1:30)
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Titus 3:2• 2to speak evil of no one, to be uncontentious, gentle, showing all meekness toward all men. (Titus 3:2)
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James 4:11• 11Speak not against one another, brethren. He that speaketh against a brother, or judgeth his brother, speaketh against law and judgeth law; but if thou judgest law, thou art not a doer of law but a judge. (James 4:11)
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1 Peter 2:1‑2• 1Putting away therefore all malice and all guile and hypocrisies and envyings and all evil-speakings,
 2as new-born babes long for the guileless intelligent milk that by it ye may grow unto salvation, (1 Peter 2:1‑2)
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1 Sam. 24:11• 11Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand: for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not, know thou and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in mine hand, and I have not sinned against thee; yet thou huntest my soul to take it. (1 Sam. 24:11)
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Isa. 56:2• 2Blessed [is] weak man [that] doeth this, and the son of man [that] holdeth fast by it; that keepeth the Sabbath from profaning it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil. (Isa. 56:2)
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Matt. 7:12• 12Therefore all things whatsoever ye desire that men should do to you, thus do ye also to them; for this is the law and the prophets. (Matt. 7:12)
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Rom. 12:17• 17repay to none evil for evil; providing things right in the sight of all men; (Rom. 12:17)
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Rom. 13:10• 10Love worketh no ill to one's neighbour; love therefore is law's fullness. (Rom. 13:10)
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3 John 11• 11Beloved, imitate not the evil but the good. The good-doer is of God; the evil-doer hath not seen God. (3 John 11)
taketh up.
or, receiveth or, endureth.
Prov. 22:10• 10Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out,{HR}And strife and ignominy shall cease. (Prov. 22:10)
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Prov. 25:3• 3The heaven for height, and the earth for depth,{HR}And the heart of kings [is] unsearchable. (Prov. 25:3)
• “Take up” has the sense of “adopting” the reproach in order to propagate it. (“Psalms 15” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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He that slandereth not with his tongue, doeth not evil to his companion, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour;

W. Kelly Translation

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[Who] hath not slandered with his tongue,{HR}Hath not done evil to his neighbour,{HR}And hath not taken up a reproach against his neighbour.