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Proverbs 18:9

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The words of a talebearer [are] as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.	He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.	The name of the LORD [is] a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe.

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

He also that is slothful^H7503 in his work^H4399 is brother^H251 to him that is a great^H1167 waster^H7843.

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Original Hebrew

גַּם מִתְרַפֶּה בִמְלַאכְתֹּו אָח הוּא לְבַעַל מַשְׁחִית׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
גַּ֭ם	gam	H1571	HTa	also
מִתְרַפֶּ֣ה	mit.ra.Peh	H7503	HVtrmsa	(one who) shows himself idle
בִ/מְלַאכְתּ֑/וֹ	vi/m.lakh.T/o	H4399	HR/Ncfsc/Sp3ms	in/ work/ his
אָ֥ח	'ach	H251	HNcmsa	(is) a brother
ה֝֗וּא	Hu'	H1931	HPp3ms	he
לְ/בַ֣עַל	le./Va.'al	H1167	HR/Ncmsc	of/ a master of
מַשְׁחִֽית	mash.Chit	H7843	HNcmsa	destruction

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

Strong's References

• H251 — אָח (ʼâch, awkh): a primitive word; a brother (used in the widest sense of literal relationship and metaphorical affinity or resemblance (like father)); another, brother(-ly); kindred, like, other. Compare also the proper names beginning with 'Ah-' or 'Ahi-'.
• H1167 — בַּעַל (baʻal, bah'-al): from בָּעַל; a master; hence, a husband, or (figuratively) owner (often used with another noun in modifications of this latter sense); [phrase] archer, [phrase] babbler, [phrase] bird, captain, chief man, [phrase] confederate, [phrase] have to do, [phrase] dreamer, those to whom it is due, [phrase] furious, those that are given to it, great, [phrase] hairy, he that hath it, have, [phrase] horseman, husband, lord, man, [phrase] married, master, person, [phrase] sworn, they of.
• H4399 — מְלָאכָה (mᵉlâʼkâh, mel-aw-kaw'): from the same as מֲלְאָךְ; properly, deputyship, i.e. ministry; generally, employment (never servile) or work (abstractly or concretely); also property (as the result of labor); business, [phrase] cattle, [phrase] industrious, occupation, ([phrase] -pied), [phrase] officer, thing (made), use, (manner of) work((-man), -manship).
• H7503 — רָפָה (râphâh, raw-faw'): a primitive root; to slacken (in many applications, literal or figurative); abate, cease, consume, draw (toward evening), fail, (be) faint, be (wax) feeble, forsake, idle, leave, let alone (go, down), (be) slack, stay, be still, be slothful, (be) weak(-en). See רָפָא.
• H7843 — שָׁחַת (shâchath, shaw-khath'): a primitive root; to decay, i.e. (causatively) ruin (literally or figuratively); batter, cast off, corrupt(-er, thing), destroy(-er, -uction), lose, mar, perish, spill, spoiler, [idiom] utterly, waste(-r).

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

• H1571 — גַּם (gam, gam): by contraction from an unused root meaning to gather; properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and; again, alike, also, (so much) as (soon), both (so)...and, but, either...or, even, for all, (in) likewise (manner), moreover, nay...neither, one, then(-refore), though, what, with, yea.
• H1931 — הוּא (hûwʼ, hoo): of which the feminine (beyond the Pentateuch) is הִיא; a primitive word, the third person pronoun singular; he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demonstrative) this or that; occasionally (instead of copula) as or are; he, as for her, him(-self), it, the same, she (herself), such, that (...it), these, they, this, those, which (is), who.

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