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Psalm 34

Psa. 34:13 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Keep
natsar (Hebrew #5341)
to guard, in a good sense (to protect, maintain, obey, etc.) or a bad one (to conceal, etc.)
KJV usage: besieged, hidden thing, keep(-er, -ing), monument, observe, preserve(-r), subtil, watcher(-man).
Pronounce: naw-tsar'
Origin: a primitive root
thy 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'}
from 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
, and thy 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'}
from speaking
dabar (Hebrew #1696)
perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
KJV usage: answer, appoint, bid, command, commune, declare, destroy, give, name, promise, pronounce, rehearse, say, speak, be spokesman, subdue, talk, teach, tell, think, use (entreaties), utter, X well, X work.
Pronounce: daw-bar'
Origin: a primitive root
guile
mirmah (Hebrew #4820)
fraud
KJV usage: craft, deceit(-ful, -fully), false, feigned, guile, subtilly, treachery.
Pronounce: meer-maw'
Origin: from 7411 in the sense of deceiving
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Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Psa. 39:1• 1To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a muzzle, while the wicked is before me. (Psa. 39:1)
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Prov. 18:21• 21Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. (Prov. 18:21)
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Matt. 12:35‑37• 35The good man out of the good treasure brings forth good things; and the wicked man out of the wicked treasure brings forth wicked things.
 36But I say unto you, that every idle word which men shall say, they shall render an account of it in judgment-day:
 37for by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned. (Matt. 12:35‑37)
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James 1:19,26• 19So that, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath;
 26If any one think himself to be religious, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, this man's religion is vain. (James 1:19,26)
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James 3:2,5‑10• 2For we all often offend. If any one offend not in word, *he* is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body too.
 5Thus also the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. See how little a fire, how large a wood it kindles!
 6and the tongue is fire, the world of unrighteousness; the tongue is set in our members, the defiler of the whole body, and which sets fire to the course of nature, and is set on fire of hell.
 7For every species both of beasts and of birds, both of creeping things and of sea animals, is tamed and has been tamed by the human species;
 8but the tongue can no one among men tame; it is an unsettled evil, full of death-bringing poison.
 9Therewith bless we the Lord and Father, and therewith curse we men made after the likeness of God.
 10Out of the same mouth goes forth blessing and cursing. It is not right, my brethren, that these things should be thus. (James 3:2,5‑10)
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Psa. 55:11• 11Perversities are in the midst thereof; and oppression and deceit depart not from its streets. (Psa. 55:11)
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Prov. 12:7,19,22• 7Overthrow the wicked, and they are no more; but the house of the righteous shall stand.
 19The lip of truth shall be established for ever; but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
 22Lying lips are an abomination to Jehovah; but they that deal truly are his delight. (Prov. 12:7,19,22)
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Prov. 19:9• 9A false witness shall not be held innocent, and he that uttereth lies shall perish. (Prov. 19:9)
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Isa. 63:8• 8And he said, They are indeed my people, children that will not lie; and he became their Saviour. (Isa. 63:8)
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Col. 3:9• 9Do not lie to one another, having put off the old man with his deeds, (Col. 3:9)
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1 Peter 2:1,22• 1Laying aside therefore all malice and all guile and hypocrisies and envyings and all evil speakings,
 22who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth; (1 Peter 2:1,22)
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Rev. 14:4‑5• 4These are they who have not been defiled with women, for they are virgins: these are they who follow the Lamb wheresoever it goes. These have been bought from men as first-fruits to God and to the Lamb:
 5and in their mouths was no lie found; for they are blameless. (Rev. 14:4‑5)
• The lips from guile—uttering fair words with an evil motive. (“Psalms 34” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile;