Proverbs 2:12

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לְ֭הַצִּ֣ילְךָ מִדֶּ֣רֶךְ רָ֑ע מֵ֝אִ֗ישׁ מְדַבֵּ֥ר תַּהְפֻּכֽוֹת׃

Transliteration

to-haṣṣîləḵā from-dеrеḵ rāʿ from-ʾîš məḏabbēr tahpuḵôṯ

Grammar Details

*haṣṣîləḵā*: verb, hiphil infinitive construct with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - to deliver you
*dеrеḵ*: noun, masculine singular construct - way of
*rāʿ*: adjective, masculine singular - evil
*ʾîš*: noun, masculine singular - man
*məḏabbēr*: verb, piel participle masculine singular - speaking
*tahpuḵôṯ*: noun, feminine plural - perversity/distortion

Word Meanings

*haṣṣîləḵā*: deliver/rescue/save you
*dеrеḵ*: way/path/journey
*rāʿ*: evil/bad/wicked
*məḏabbēr*: speaking/talking
*tahpuḵôṯ*: perversity/distortion/twisted things

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

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

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