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Proverbs 2

Prov. 2:12 KJV (With Strong’s)

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To deliver
natsal (Hebrew #5337)
to snatch away, whether in a good or a bad sense
KJV usage: X at all, defend, deliver (self), escape, X without fail, part, pluck, preserve, recover, rescue, rid, save, spoil, strip, X surely, take (out).
Pronounce: naw-tsal'
Origin: a primitive root
thee from the way
derek (Hebrew #1870)
a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
KJV usage: along, away, because of, + by, conversation, custom, (east-)ward, journey, manner, passenger, through, toward, (high-) (path-)way(-side), whither(-soever).
Pronounce: deh'-rek
Origin: from 1869
of the 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
man, from the 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)
that speaketh
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
froward things
tahpukah (Hebrew #8419)
a perversity or fraud
KJV usage: (very) froward(-ness, thing), perverse thing.
Pronounce: tah-poo-kaw'
Origin: from 2015
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Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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deliver.
Prov. 1:10‑19• 10My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
 11If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
 12Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
 13We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
 14Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
 15My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
 16For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
 17Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
 18And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
 19So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof. (Prov. 1:10‑19)
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Prov. 4:14‑17• 14Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.
 15Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
 16For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
 17For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence. (Prov. 4:14‑17)
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Prov. 9:6• 6Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding. (Prov. 9:6)
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Prov. 13:20• 20He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed. (Prov. 13:20)
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Psa. 17:4‑5• 4Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.
 5Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not. (Psa. 17:4‑5)
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Psa. 26:4‑5• 4I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.
 5I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked. (Psa. 26:4‑5)
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Psa. 141:4• 4Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties. (Psa. 141:4)
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2 Cor. 6:17• 17Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, (2 Cor. 6:17)
from the man.
Prov. 3:32• 32For the froward is abomination to the Lord: but his secret is with the righteous. (Prov. 3:32)
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Prov. 8:13• 13The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate. (Prov. 8:13)
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Prov. 16:28‑30• 28A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
 29A violent man enticeth his neighbor, and leadeth him into the way that is not good.
 30He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass. (Prov. 16:28‑30)
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Psa. 101:4• 4A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person. (Psa. 101:4)
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Isa. 59:3‑5• 3For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
 4None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
 5They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper. (Isa. 59:3‑5)
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Acts 20:30• 30Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them. (Acts 20:30)
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1 Cor. 15:33• 33Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. (1 Cor. 15:33)
• The evil man is the man who walks in the pride of his heart and in independence of God. This, to the young, seems very attractive, appealing to the natural mind. (“Proverbs Two” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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To deliver thee from the way of evil, from the man that speaketh froward thingsa;

JND Translation Notes

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Or "deceits," plural, as often. see Ps. 5.9; 11.7.