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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.{HR}I said, I will keep my ways, from sinning with my tongue;{HR}I will keep a muzzle to my mouth, while the wicked [man is] before me. (Psa. 39:1)
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Prov. 18:21• 21Death and life [are] in the power of the tongue;{HR}And they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. (Prov. 18:21)
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Matt. 12:35‑37• 35{i}The good man out of the good treasure brings forth good things; and the wicked man out of the wicked treasure brings forth wicked things.{/i}
 36{i}But I say unto you, that every idle word which men shall say, they shall render an account of it in judgment-day:{/i}
 37{i}for by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.{/i} (Matt. 12:35‑37)
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James 1:19,26• 19Ye know [it], my brethren beloved, but let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath;
 26If anyone thinks he is 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 in many things we all offend. If anyone offendeth not in word, he [is] a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.
 5So also the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. See how large a wood how little a fire kindleth!
 6And the tongue [is] fire, the world of iniquity; the tongue cometh to be in our members that which defileth the whole body, and setteth in a blaze the course of nature, and is set in a blaze by gehenna.
 7For every nature of both wild beasts and birds, of both things that creep and things in the sea, is tamed and hath been tamed by the nature of man;
 8but the tongue is none of men able to tame; an unsettled evil, full of deadly poison.
 9Therewith we bless the Lord and [the] Father, and therewith we curse men that are made according to God's likeness.
 10Out of the same mouth cometh blessing and cursing. Not so, my brethren, ought these things to be. (James 3:2,5‑10)
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Psa. 55:11• 11Perversities [are] in its midst;{HR}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;{HR}But the house of the righteous shall stand
 19The lip of truth shall be established forever;{HR}But a lying tongue [is] but for a moment.
 22Lying lips [are] an abomination to Jehovah;{HR}But those 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,{HR}And one uttering lies shall perish. (Prov. 19:9)
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Isa. 63:8• 8And he said, Surely they [are] my people, children [that] will not lie; and he became their Saviour. (Isa. 63:8)
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Col. 3:9• 9Lie not to one another, having put off the old man with his deeds, (Col. 3:9)
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1 Peter 2:1,22• 1Putting away 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 were not defiled with women: for they are virgins. These [are] they that follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were bought from among men, firstfruits to God and to the Lamb:
 5and in their mouth was found no falsehood; [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;

W. Kelly Translation

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Keep thy tongue from evil{HR}And thy lips from speaking deceit.