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Proverbs 2

Prov. 2:15 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Whose ways
'orach (Hebrew #734)
a well-trodden road (literally or figuratively); also a caravan
KJV usage: manner, path, race, rank, traveller, troop, (by-, high-)way.
Pronounce: o'-rakh
Origin: from 732
are crooked
`iqqesh (Hebrew #6141)
distorted; hence, false
KJV usage: crooked, froward, perverse.
Pronounce: ik-kashe'
Origin: from 6140
y, and they froward
luwz (Hebrew #3868)
to turn aside (compare 3867, 3874 and 3885), i.e. (literally) to depart, (figuratively) be perverse
KJV usage: depart, froward, perverse(-ness).
Pronounce: looz
Origin: a primitive root
in their paths
ma`gal (Hebrew #4570)
from the same as 5696; a track (literally or figuratively); also a rampart (as circular)
KJV usage: going, path, trench, way((-side)).
Pronounce: mah-gawl'
Origin: or feminine mapgalah {mah-gaw-law'}
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Psa. 125:5• 5But those that turn to crooked ways{HR}Will Jehovah lead forth with the workers of iniquity.{HR}Peace [be] upon Israel. (Psa. 125:5)

Cross References

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Deut. 32:5• 5They have dealt corruptly with him;{HR}Not his children's is their spot:{HR}—A crooked and perverted generation!{HR} (Deut. 32:5)
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Psa. 125:5• 5But those that turn to crooked ways{HR}Will Jehovah lead forth with the workers of iniquity.{HR}Peace [be] upon Israel. (Psa. 125:5)
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Isa. 30:8‑13• 8Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever.
 9For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children [that] will not hear the law of Jehovah;
 10that say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
 11get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us!
 12Therefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye reject this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon,
 13therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly in an instant. (Isa. 30:8‑13)
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Isa. 59:8• 8The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths; whosoever goeth therein knoweth not peace. (Isa. 59:8)
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Phil. 2:15• 15that ye may be blameless and sincere, irreproachable children of God amidst a crooked and perverse generation, among whom ye shine as lights in [the] world, (Phil. 2:15)

J. N. Darby Translation

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whose paths are crooked, and who are pervertedc in their coursed:

JND Translation Notes

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c
See Note, ch. 3.32.
d
See Note i, ver. 9.

W. Kelly Translation

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Who in their paths are crooked, and pervert in their course—