Proverbs 6:12

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אָדָ֣ם בְּ֭לִיַּעַל אִ֣ישׁ אָ֑וֶן ה֝וֹלֵ֗ךְ עִקְּשׁ֥וּת פֶּֽה׃

Transliteration

ʾādām bəliyyaʿal ʾîš ʾāwen hôlēḵ ʿiqqəšût peh

Grammar Details

• *ʾādām*: noun, masculine singular - man/human
• *bəliyyaʿal*: noun, masculine singular - worthlessness/wickedness
• *ʾîš*: noun, masculine singular - man
• *ʾāwen*: noun, masculine singular - wickedness/iniquity
• *hôlēḵ*: verb, qal participle masculine singular - walking/going
• *ʿiqqəšût*: noun, feminine singular construct - crookedness/perversity of
• *peh*: noun, masculine singular - mouth

Word Meanings

• *bəliyyaʿal*: worthlessness/wickedness/vileness
• *ʾāwen*: wickedness/iniquity/trouble
• *ʿiqqəšût*: crookedness/perversity/distortion

Referenced Verses

• Prov 4:24 : 24 Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
• Prov 16:27 : 27 An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.
• Prov 17:4 : 4 A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.
• Matt 12:34 : 34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
• Acts 20:30 : 30 Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
• 1 Tim 5:13 : 13 And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
• Titus 1:10-11 : 10 For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision: 11 Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.
• Jas 3:6 : 6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
• Prov 6:14 : 14 Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.
• 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 11:6 : 6 The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness.
• Ps 10:3 : 3 For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.
• Ps 10:7 : 7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
• Ps 36:3 : 3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise{H8687)}, and to do good{H8687)}.
• Ps 52:2-4 : 2 Thy tongue deviseth{H8799)} mischiefs; like a sharp{H8794)} razor, working{H8802)} deceitfully. 3 Thou lovest{H8804)} evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak{H8763)} righteousness. Selah. 4 Thou lovest{H8804)} all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.
• Ps 59:7 : 7 Behold, they belch out{H8686)} with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear{H8802)}?
• Ps 73:8-9 : 8 They are corrupt{H8686)}, and speak{H8762)} wickedly concerning oppression: they speak{H8762)} loftily. 9 They set{H8804)} their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh{H8799)} through the earth.
• Prov 2:12 : 12 To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;
• 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.
• Jer 24:2 : 2 One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.
• Jer 24:8-9 : 8 And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil; surely thus saith the LORD, So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt: 9 And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them. 10 And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers.
• 1 Sam 17:28 : 28 And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why camest thou down hither? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle.