Proverbs 22:25

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Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:	Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.	Be not thou [one] of them that strike hands, [or] of them that are sureties for debts.

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

Lest thou learn^H502 his ways^H734, and get^H3947 a snare^H4170 to thy soul^H5315.

Original Hebrew

פֶּן־תֶּאֱלַף [אָרְחָתֹו כ] (אֹרְחֹתָיו ק) וְלָקַחְתָּ מֹוקֵשׁ לְנַפְשֶׁךָ׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
פֶּן	pen-	H6435	HC	lest
תֶּאֱלַ֥ף	te.'e.Laf	H502	HVqi2ms	you should learn
ארחת/ו	ʼôrach	H734	HNcbsc/Sp3ms
וְ/לָקַחְתָּ֖	ve./la.kach.Ta	H3947	HC/Vqq2ms	and/ you will take
מוֹקֵ֣שׁ	mo.Kesh	H4170	HNcmsa	a snare
לְ/נַפְשֶֽׁ/ךָ	le./naf.She./kha	H5315	HR/Ncbsc/Sp2ms	for/ self/ your

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

Strong's References

H502 — אָלַף (ʼâlaph, aw-lof'): a primitive root, to associate with; hence, to learn (and causatively to teach); learn, teach, utter.
H734 — אֹרַח (ʼôrach, o'-rakh): from אָרַח; a well-trodden road (literally or figuratively); also a caravan; manner, path, race, rank, traveller, troop, (by-, high-) way.
H3947 — לָקַח (lâqach, law-kakh'): a primitive root; to take (in the widest variety of applications); accept, bring, buy, carry away, drawn, fetch, get, infold, [idiom] many, mingle, place, receive(-ing), reserve, seize, send for, take (away, -ing, up), use, win.
H4170 — מוֹקֵשׁ (môwqêsh, mo-kashe'): or מֹקֵשׁ; from יָקֹשׁ; a noose (for catching animals) (literally or figuratively); by implication, a hook (for the nose); be ensnared, gin, (is) snare(-d), trap.
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.

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

H6435 — פֵּן (pên, pane): from פָּנָה; properly, removal; used only (in the construction) adverb as conjunction, lest; (lest) (peradventure), that...not.

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