Proverbs 26:18

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He that passeth by, [and] meddleth with strife [belonging] not to him, [is like] one that taketh a dog by the ears.	As a mad [man] who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death,	So [is] the man [that] deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am not I in sport?

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

As a mad^H3856 man who casteth^H3384 firebrands^H2131, arrows^H2671, and death^H4194,

Original Hebrew

כְּמִתְלַהְלֵהַּ הַיֹּרֶה זִקִּים חִצִּים וָמָוֶת׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
כְּֽ֭/מִתְלַהְלֵהַּ	Ke./mit.lah.le.ah	H3856	HR/Vfrmsa	like/ a madman
הַ/יֹּרֶ֥ה	hai./yo.Reh	H3384	HTd/Vqrmsa	who/ throws
זִקִּ֗ים	zi.Kim	H2131	HNcbpa	burning arrows
חִצִּ֥ים	chi.Tzim	H2671	HNcmpa	arrows
וָ/מָֽוֶת	va./Ma.vet	H4194	HC/Ncmsa	and/ death

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

Strong's References

H2131 — זִיקָה (zîyqâh, zee-kaw'): (Isaiah 50: (feminine); and זִק; or זֵק; from זָנַק; properly, what leaps forth, i.e. flash of fire, or a burning arrow; also (from the original sense of the root) a bond; chain, fetter, firebrand, spark.
H2671 — חֵץ (chêts, khayts): from חָצַץ; also by interchange for עֵץ; properly, a piercer, i.e. an arrow; by implication, a wound; figuratively, (of God) thunderbolt; the shaft of aspear; [phrase] archer, arrow, dart, shaft, staff, wound.
H3384 — יָרָה (yârâh, yaw-raw'): or (2 Chronicles 26:15) יָרָא; a primitive root; properly, to flow as water (i.e. to rain); transitively, to lay or throw (especially an arrow, i.e. to shoot); figuratively, to point out (as if by aiming the finger), to teach; ([phrase]) archer, cast, direct, inform, instruct, lay, shew, shoot, teach(-er,-ing), through.
H3856 — לָהַהּ (lâhahh, law-hah'): a primitive root meaning properly, to burn, i.e. (by implication); to be rabid (figuratively, insane); also (from the exhaustion of frenzy) to languish; faint, mad.
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).

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