Exodus 23:7
Old Testament • 9 words with Strong's data
"Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked."
Word-by-Word Analysis
שָׁמַר
shâmar
properly, to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e. guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc.
רָחַק
râchaq
to widen (in any direction), i.e. (intransitively) recede or (transitively) remove (literally or figuratively, of place or relation)
שֶׁקֶר
sheqer
an untruth; by implication, a sham (often adverbial)
דָּבָר
dâbâr
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
צָדַק
tsâdaq
to be (causatively, make) right (in a moral or forensic sense)
רָשָׁע
râshâʻ
morally wrong; concretely, an (actively) bad person
Key Terms in This Verse
צָדַק tsâdaq
to be (causatively, make) right (in a moral or forensic sense)
Study H6663 →דָּבָר dâbâr
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
Study H1697 →רָחַק râchaq
to widen (in any direction), i.e. (intransitively) recede or (transitively) remove (literally or figuratively, of place or relation)
Study H7368 →שָׁמַר shâmar
properly, to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e. guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc.
Study H8104 →Cross References
Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s c...
Abstain from all appearance of evil.
Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
Thou shalt not kill.
And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages.
The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shuttet...
He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD.
If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.
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