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Proverbs 10:3

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Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.	The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.	He becometh poor that dealeth [with] a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

The LORD^H3068 will not suffer^H7456 the soul^H5315 of the righteous^H6662 to famish^H7456: but he casteth away^H1920 the substance^H1942 of the wicked^H7563.

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Original Hebrew

לֹא־יַרְעִיב יְהוָה נֶפֶשׁ צַדִּיק וְהַוַּת רְשָׁעִים יֶהְדֹּף׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
לֹֽא	lo'-	H3808	HTn	not
יַרְעִ֣יב	yar.'Iv	H7456	HVhi3ms	he allows to hunger
יְ֭הוָה	Yah.weh	H3068	HNp	Yahweh
נֶ֣פֶשׁ	Ne.fesh	H5315	HNcbsc	(the) appetite of
צַדִּ֑יק	tza.Dik	H6662	HAamsa	(the) righteous
וְ/הַוַּ֖ת	ve./ha.Vat	H1942	HC/Ncfsc	and/ (the) craving of
רְשָׁעִ֣ים	re.sha.'Im	H7563	HAampa	wicked (people)
יֶהְדֹּֽף	yeh.Dof	H1920	HVqi3ms	he rejects

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

Strong's References

• H1920 — הָדַף (hâdaph, haw-daf'): a primitive root; to push away or down; cast away (out), drive, expel, thrust (away).
• H1942 — הַוָּה (havvâh, hav-vaw'): from הָוָא (in the sense of eagerly coveting and rushing upon; by implication, of falling); desire; also ruin; calamity, iniquity, mischief, mischievous (thing), naughtiness, naughty, noisome, perverse thing, substance, very wickedness.
• H3068 — יְהֹוָה (Yᵉhôvâh, yeh-ho-vaw'): from הָיָה; (the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God; Jehovah, the Lord. Compare יָהּ, יְהֹוִה.
• 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.
• H6662 — צַדִּיק (tsaddîyq, tsad-deek'): from צָדַק; just; just, lawful, righteous (man).
• H7456 — רָעֵב (râʻêb, raw-abe'): a primitive root; to hunger; (suffer to) famish, (be, have, suffer, suffer to) hunger(-ry).
• H7563 — רָשָׁע (râshâʻ, raw-shaw'): from רָשַׁע; morally wrong; concretely, an (actively) bad person; [phrase] condemned, guilty, ungodly, wicked (man), that did wrong.

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

• H3808 — לֹא (lôʼ, lo): or לוֹא; or לֹה; (Deuteronomy 3:11), a primitive particle; not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles; [idiom] before, [phrase] or else, ere, [phrase] except, ig(-norant), much, less, nay, neither, never, no((-ne), -r, (-thing)), ([idiom] as though...,(can-), for) not (out of), of nought, otherwise, out of, [phrase] surely, [phrase] as truly as, [phrase] of a truth, [phrase] verily, for want, [phrase] whether, without.

Cross References

Verse Cross-References (Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, Enhanced)

• but — Job 20:5-8, Job 20:20-22, Job 20:28, Habakkuk 2:6-8, Zephaniah 1:18
• the substance of the wicked — Proverbs 14:32
• will — Job 5:20, Psalms 10:14, Psalms 33:19, Psalms 34:9-10, Psalms 37:3, Psalms 37:19, Psalms 37:25, Isaiah 33:16, Matthew 6:30-33, Luke 12:22-24, Luke 12:31, Hebrews 13:5-6

Reciprocal references (1): Proverbs 28:10

Related Topics

• Nave’s: GOD, RIGHTEOUS, WICKED (PEOPLE)

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