Proverbs 1:11
Old Testament • 12 words with Strong's data
"If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:"
Word-by-Word Analysis
אָמַר
ʼâmar
to say (used with great latitude)
בּוֹא
bôwʼ
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
שָׁאַר
shâʼar
properly, to swell up, i.e. be (causatively, make) redundant
נָתַן
nâthan
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
דָּם
dâm
blood (as that which when shed causes death) of man or an animal; by analogy, the juice of the grape; figuratively (especially in the plural) bloodshe...
שָׁאַר
shâʼar
properly, to swell up, i.e. be (causatively, make) redundant
צָפַן
tsâphan
to hide (by covering over); by implication, to hoard or reserve; figuratively to deny; specifically (favorably) to protect, (unfavorably) to lurk
חוּץ
chûwts
properly, separate by awall, i.e. outside, outdoors
Key Terms in This Verse
צָפַן tsâphan
to hide (by covering over); by implication, to hoard or reserve; figuratively to deny; specifically (favorably) to protect, (unfavorably) to lurk
Study H6845 →נָתַן nâthan
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
Study H5414 →דָּם dâm
blood (as that which when shed causes death) of man or an animal; by analogy, the juice of the grape; figuratively (especially in the plural) bloodshed (i.e. drops of blood)
Study H1818 →Cross References
And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
And desired favour against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying wait in the way to kill him.
For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.
For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.
They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.
Now therefore ye with the council signify to the chief captain that he bring him down unto you to morrow, as though ye would enquire something more perfectly concerning him: and we, or ever he come ne...
But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off...
But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
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