Proverbs 4:24

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הָסֵ֣ר מִ֭מְּךָ עִקְּשׁ֣וּת פֶּ֑ה וּלְז֥וּת שְׂ֝פָתַ֗יִם הַרְחֵ֥ק מִמֶּֽךָּ׃

Transliteration

hāsēr mimməkā ʿiqqəšût peh ûləzût śəpātayim harḥēq mimmekā

Grammar Details

• *hāsēr*: imperative, masculine singular, hiphil - remove/put away
• *mimməkā*: preposition + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - from you
• *ʿiqqəšût*: feminine singular construct noun - crookedness/perversity of
• *peh*: masculine singular noun - mouth
• *ûləzût*: conjunction + feminine singular construct noun - and deviousness of
• *śəpātayim*: feminine dual noun - lips
• *harḥēq*: imperative, masculine singular, hiphil - put far
• *mimmekā*: preposition + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - from you

Word Meanings

• *hāsēr*: remove/put away/turn aside
• *ʿiqqəšût*: crookedness/perversity/distortion
• *ləzût*: deviousness/perversion/dishonesty
• *harḥēq*: put far/remove far/distance

Referenced Verses

• Jas 1:26 : 26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
• 1 Pet 2:1 : 1 Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
• Jas 1:21 : 21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
• Prov 8:8 : 8 All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.
• Eph 4:25-31 : 25 Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another. 26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: 27 Neither give place to the devil. 28 Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth. 29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. 30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. 31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
• Job 11:14 : 14 If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.
• Prov 6:12 : 12 A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.
• 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 17:20 : 20 He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.
• Ezek 18:31 : 31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
• Col 3:8 : 8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
• 1 Tim 6:5 : 5 Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.