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Proverbs 14

Prov. 14:16 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Aa wise
chakam (Hebrew #2450)
wise, (i.e. intelligent, skilful or artful)
KJV usage: cunning (man), subtil, ((un-)), wise((hearted), man).
Pronounce: khaw-kawm'
Origin: from 2449
man feareth
yare' (Hebrew #3373)
fearing; morally, reverent
KJV usage: afraid, fear (-ful).
Pronounce: yaw-ray'
Origin: from 3372
, and departeth
cuwr (Hebrew #5493)
a primitive root; to turn off (literal or figurative)
KJV usage: be(-head), bring, call back, decline, depart, eschew, get (you), go (aside), X grievous, lay away (by), leave undone, be past, pluck away, put (away, down), rebel, remove (to and fro), revolt, X be sour, take (away, off), turn (aside, away, in), withdraw, be without.
Pronounce: soor
Origin: or suwr (Hosea 9:12) {soor}
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
: but the fool
kciyl (Hebrew #3684)
properly, fat, i.e. (figuratively) stupid or silly
KJV usage: fool(-ish).
Pronounce: kes-eel'
Origin: from 3688
rageth
`abar (Hebrew #5674)
to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in copulation)
KJV usage: alienate, alter, X at all, beyond, bring (over, through), carry over, (over-)come (on, over), conduct (over), convey over, current, deliver, do away, enter, escape, fail, gender, get over, (make) go (away, beyond, by, forth, his way, in, on, over, through), have away (more), lay, meddle, overrun, make partition, (cause to, give, make to, over) pass(-age, along, away, beyond, by, -enger, on, out, over, through), (cause to, make) + proclaim(-amation), perish, provoke to anger, put away, rage, + raiser of taxes, remove, send over, set apart, + shave, cause to (make) sound, X speedily, X sweet smelling, take (away), (make to) transgress(-or), translate, turn away, (way-)faring man, be wrath.
Pronounce: aw-bar'
Origin: a primitive root
, and is confident
batach (Hebrew #982)
properly, to hie for refuge (but not so precipitately as 2620); figuratively, to trust, be confident or sure
KJV usage: be bold (confident, secure, sure), careless (one, woman), put confidence, (make to) hope, (put, make to) trust.
Pronounce: baw-takh'
Origin: a primitive root
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Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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feareth.
the fool.
Prov. 7:22• 22He went after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, and as stocks serve for the correction of the fool; (Prov. 7:22)
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Prov. 28:14• 14Happy is the man that feareth always; but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into evil. (Prov. 28:14)
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Prov. 29:9• 9If a wise man contendeth with a fool, whether he rage or laugh, he hath no rest. (Prov. 29:9)
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1 Kings 19:2• 2And Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah saying, So do the gods to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to-morrow about this time! (1 Kings 19:2)
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1 Kings 20:10‑11,18• 10And Ben-Hadad sent to him and said, The gods do so to me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow me!
11And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell him, Let not him that girdeth on boast himself as he that putteth off!
18And he said, Whether they be come out for peace, take them alive; or whether they be come out for war, take them alive.
(1 Kings 20:10‑11,18)
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Eccl. 10:13• 13The beginning of the words of his mouth is folly; and the end of his talk is mischievous madness. (Eccl. 10:13)
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Mark 6:17‑19,24‑25• 17For the same Herod had sent and seized John, and had bound him in prison on account of Herodias, the wife of Philip his brother, because he had married her.
18For John said to Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have the wife of thy brother.
19But Herodias kept it in her mind against him, and wished to kill him, and could not:
24And she went out, and said to her mother, What should I ask? And she said, The head of John the baptist.
25And immediately going in with haste to the king, she asked saying, I desire that thou give me directly upon a dish the head of John the baptist.
(Mark 6:17‑19,24‑25)
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John 9:40• 40And some of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and they said to him, Are we blind also? (John 9:40)
 The fool, heeding no one, led by his lustful desires, rushes on in vainglorious self-confidence to his own destruction. (Proverbs Fourteen by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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A wise man feareth and departeth from evil; but the foolish is overbearing and confident.