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Proverbs 15:4


Proverbs 15:3 Proverbs 15:4 (KJV) Proverbs 15:5
The eyes of the LORD [are] in every place, beholding the evil and the good.
A wholesome tongue [is] a tree of life: but perverseness therein [is] a breach in the spirit.
A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

A wholesomeH4832 tongueH3956 is a treeH6086 of lifeH2416: but perversenessH5558 therein is a breachH7667 in the spiritH7307.


Original Hebrew

מַרְפֵּא לָשֹׁון עֵץ חַיִּים וְסֶלֶף בָּהּ שֶׁבֶר בְּרוּחַ׃

Hebrew Transliteration Strong's Morphology Gloss
מַרְפֵּ֣א
mar.Pe' H4832 HNcmsc healing of
לָ֭שׁוֹן
La.shon H3956 HNcbsa tongue
עֵ֣ץ
'etz H6086 HNcmsc (is) a tree of
חַיִּ֑ים
chai.Yim H2416 HNcmpa life
וְ/סֶ֥לֶף
ve./Se.lef H5558 HC/Ncmsa and/ perverseness
בָּ֝֗/הּ
Ba/h HR/Sp3fs with/ it
שֶׁ֣בֶר
She.ver H7667 HNcmsa (is) brokenness
בְּ/רֽוּחַ
be./Ru.ach H7307 HR/Ncbsa in/ spirit
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.
  • H3956 — לָשׁוֹן (lâshôwn, law-shone'): or לָשֹׁן; also (in plural) feminine לְשֹׁנָה; from לָשַׁן; the tongue (of man or animals), used literally (as the instrument of licking, eating, or speech), and figuratively (speech, an ingot, a fork of flame, a cove of water); [phrase] babbler, bay, [phrase] evil speaker, language, talker, tongue, wedge.
  • H4832 — מַרְפֵּא (marpêʼ, mar-pay'): from רָפָא; properly, curative, i.e. literally (concretely) a medicine, or (abstractly) a cure; figuratively (concretely) deliverance, or (abstractly) placidity; (in-)cure(-able), healing(-lth), remedy, sound, wholesome, yielding.
  • H5558 — סֶלֶף (çeleph, seh'-lef): from סָלַף; distortion, i.e. (figuratively) viciousness; perverseness.
  • H6086 — עֵץ (ʻêts, ates): from עָצָה; a tree (from its firmness); hence, wood (plural sticks); [phrase] carpenter, gallows, helve, [phrase] pine, plank, staff, stalk, stick, stock, timber, tree, wood.
  • H7307 — רוּחַ (rûwach, roo'-akh): from רוּחַ; wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the sky; by resemblance spirit, but only of a rational being (including its expression and functions); air, anger, blast, breath, [idiom] cool, courage, mind, [idiom] quarter, [idiom] side, spirit(-ual), tempest, [idiom] vain, (whirl-) wind(-y).
  • H7667 — שֶׁבֶר (sheber, sheh'-ber): or שֵׁבֶר; from שָׁבַר; a fracture, figuratively, ruin; specifically, a solution (of a dream); affliction, breach, breaking, broken(-footed, -handed), bruise, crashing, destruction, hurt, interpretation, vexation.
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Verse Cross-References (Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, Enhanced)

Reciprocal references (5): Proverbs 10:20, Proverbs 10:21, Proverbs 11:30, Matthew 12:35, Colossians 4:6

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