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Proverbs 11:19

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The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness [shall be] a sure reward.	As righteousness [tendeth] to life: so he that pursueth evil [pursueth it] to his own death.	They that are of a froward heart [are] abomination to the LORD: but [such as are] upright in [their] way [are] his delight.

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

As righteousness^H6666 tendeth to life^H2416: so he that pursueth^H7291 evil^H7451 pursueth it to his own death^H4194.

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Original Hebrew

כֵּן־צְדָקָה לְחַיִּים וּמְרַדֵּף רָעָה לְמֹותֹו׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
כֵּן	ken-	H3651	HTm	true
צְדָקָ֥ה	tze.da.Kah	H6666	HNcfsa	righteousness
לְ/חַיִּ֑ים	le./chai.Yim	H2416	HR/Ncmpa	(is) to/ life
וּ/מְרַדֵּ֖ף	u./me.ra.Def	H7291	HC/Vprmsa	and/ (one who) pursues
רָעָ֣ה	ra.'Ah	H7451	HNcfsa	evil
לְ/מוֹתֽ/וֹ	le./mo.T/o	H4194	HR/Ncmsc/Sp3ms	(is) to/ own death/ his

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

Strong's References

• H2416 — חַי (chay, khah'-ee): from חָיָה; alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or living thing), whether literally or figuratively; [phrase] age, alive, appetite, (wild) beast, company, congregation, life(-time), live(-ly), living (creature, thing), maintenance, [phrase] merry, multitude, [phrase] (be) old, quick, raw, running, springing, troop.
• H4194 — מָוֶת (mâveth, maw'-veth): from מוּת; death (natural or violent); concretely, the dead, their place or state (hades); figuratively, pestilence, ruin; (be) dead(-ly), death, die(-d).
• H6666 — צְדָקָה (tsᵉdâqâh, tsed-aw-kaw'): from צָדַק; rightness (abstractly), subjectively (rectitude), objectively (justice), morally (virtue) or figuratively (prosperity); justice, moderately, right(-eous) (act, -ly, -ness).
• H7291 — רָדַף (râdaph, raw-daf'): a primitive root; to run after (usually with hostile intent; figuratively (of time) gone by); chase, put to flight, follow (after, on), hunt, (be under) persecute(-ion, -or), pursue(-r).
• H7451 — רַע (raʻ, rah): from רָעַע; bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral); adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, [phrase] displease(-ure), distress, evil((-favouredness), man, thing), [phrase] exceedingly, [idiom] great, grief(-vous), harm, heavy, hurt(-ful), ill (favoured), [phrase] mark, mischief(-vous), misery, naught(-ty), noisome, [phrase] not please, sad(-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked(-ly, -ness, one), worse(-st), wretchedness, wrong. (Incl. feminine raaah; as adjective or noun.).

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

• H3651 — כֵּן (kên, kane): from כּוּן; properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner, time and relation; often with other particles); [phrase] after that (this, -ward, -wards), as... as, [phrase] (for-) asmuch as yet, [phrase] be (for which) cause, [phrase] following, howbeit, in (the) like (manner, -wise), [idiom] the more, right, (even) so, state, straightway, such (thing), surely, [phrase] there (where) -fore, this, thus, true, well, [idiom] you.

Cross References

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

• he — Proverbs 1:16-19, Proverbs 7:22-23, Proverbs 8:36, Romans 2:8-9
• righteousness — Proverbs 10:16, Proverbs 11:4, Proverbs 12:28, Proverbs 19:23, Acts 10:35, 1 John 3:7, 1 John 3:10

Reciprocal references (4): 1 Kings 18:18, 2 Kings 1:4, Proverbs 5:6, Proverbs 15:27

Related Topics

• Thompson Chain: LIFE-DEATH, SIN-SAVIOUR
• Torrey’s: RIGHTEOUSNESS
• Nave’s: RIGHTEOUSNESS, SIN, WICKED (PEOPLE)

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