King James Version:
(The Lord speaking is red text)
And they lay wait for their [own] blood; they lurk privily for their [own] lives.
Complete Jewish Bible:
rather, they are ambushing themselves to shed their own blood, waylaying themselves.
Berean Standard Bible:
But they lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own lives.
American Standard Version:
And these lay wait for their own blood; They lurk privily for their own lives.
KJV with Strong’s Numbers:
And they lay wait{H693} for their own blood{H1818}; they lurk privily{H6845} for their own lives{H5315}.
Cross-References (KJV):
Psalms 9:16
- The LORD is known [by] the judgment [which] he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.
Esther 7:10
- So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.
Matthew 27:4
- Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What [is that] to us? see thou [to that].
Matthew 27:5
- And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.
Proverbs 5:22
- His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
Proverbs 5:23
- He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
Proverbs 28:17
- ¶ A man that doeth violence to the blood of [any] person shall flee to the pit; let no man stay him.
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Commentary for Proverbs 1:18
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Strong's Numbers and Definitions:
Note: H = Hebrew (OT), G = Greek (NT)
- Strong's Number: H693
There are 116 instances of this translation in the Bible
Lemma: אָרַב
Transliteration: ʼârab
Pronunciation: aw-rab'
Description: a primitive root; to lurk; (lie in) ambush(-ment), lay (lie in) wait. - Strong's Number: H1818
There are 295 instances of this translation in the Bible
Lemma: דָּם
Transliteration: dâm
Pronunciation: dawm
Description: from דָּמַם (compare אָדַם); blood (as that which when shed causes death) of man or an animal; by analogy, the juice of the grape; figuratively (especially in the plural) bloodshed (i.e. drops of blood); blood(-y, -guiltiness, (-thirsty), [phrase] innocent. - Strong's Number: H6845
There are 30 instances of this translation in the Bible
Lemma: צָפַן
Transliteration: tsâphan
Pronunciation: tsaw-fan'
Description: a primitive root; to hide (by covering over); by implication, to hoard or reserve; figuratively to deny; specifically (favorably) to protect, (unfavorably) to lurk; esteem, hide(-den one, self), lay up, lurk (be set) privily, (keep) secret(-ly, place). - Strong's Number: H5315
There are 683 instances of this translation in the Bible
Lemma: נֶפֶשׁ
Transliteration: nephesh
Pronunciation: neh'-fesh
Description: from נָפַשׁ; properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental); any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, [idiom] dead(-ly), desire, [idiom] (dis-) contented, [idiom] fish, ghost, [phrase] greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, [idiom] jeopardy of) life ([idiom] in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-) self, them (your) -selves, [phrase] slay, soul, [phrase] tablet, they, thing, ([idiom] she) will, [idiom] would have it.