Proverbs 1:18

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Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.	And they lay wait for their [own] blood; they lurk privily for their [own] lives.	So [are] the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; [which] taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

And they lay wait^H693 for their own blood^H1818; they lurk privily^H6845 for their own lives^H5315.

Original Hebrew

וְהֵם לְדָמָם יֶאֱרֹבוּ יִצְפְּנוּ לְנַפְשֹׁתָם׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
וְ֭/הֵם	Ve./hem	H1992	HC/Pp3mp	and/ they
לְ/דָמָ֣/ם	le./da.Ma/m	H1818	HR/Ncmsc/Sp3mp	for/ own blood/ their
יֶאֱרֹ֑בוּ	ye.'e.Rou	H693	HVqi3mp	they lie in wait
יִ֝צְפְּנ֗וּ	yitz.pe.Nu	H6845	HVqi3mp	they lie hidden
לְ/נַפְשֹׁתָֽ/ם	le./naf.sho.Ta/m	H5315	HR/Ncbpc/Sp3mp	for/ own life/ their

Source: Westminster Leningrad Codex (MorphHB), TAHOT (Tyndale House)

Strong's References

H693 — אָרַב (ʼârab, aw-rab'): a primitive root; to lurk; (lie in) ambush(-ment), lay (lie in) wait.
H1818 — דָּם (dâm, dawm): 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.
H5315 — נֶפֶשׁ (nephesh, neh'-fesh): 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.
H6845 — צָפַן (tsâphan, tsaw-fan'): 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).

The following Strong's numbers are referenced in the Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) text but were not explicitly tagged in the KJV source:

H1992 — הֵם (hêm, haym): or (prolonged) הֵמָּה; masculine plural from הֲלַךְ; they (only used when emphatic); it, like, [idiom] (how, so) many (soever, more as) they (be), (the) same, [idiom] so, [idiom] such, their, them, these, they, those, which, who, whom, withal, ye.

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