Proverbs 13:6
Old Testament • 7 words with Strong's data
"Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner."
Word-by-Word Analysis
צְדָקָה
tsᵉdâqâh
rightness (abstractly), subjectively (rectitude), objectively (justice), morally (virtue) or figuratively (prosperity)
שָׁמַר
shâmar
properly, to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e. guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc.
יָשָׁר
yâshâr
straight (literally or figuratively)
דֶּרֶךְ
derek
a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
רַע
raʻ
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
סָלַף
çâlaph
properly, to wrench, i.e. (figuratively) to subvert
חָטָא
châṭâʼ
properly, to miss; hence (figuratively and generally) to sin; by inference, to forfeit, lack, expiate, repent, (causatively) lead astray, condemn
Key Terms in This Verse
חָטָא châṭâʼ
properly, to miss; hence (figuratively and generally) to sin; by inference, to forfeit, lack, expiate, repent, (causatively) lead astray, condemn
Study H2398 →שָׁמַר shâmar
properly, to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e. guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc.
Study H8104 →צְדָקָה tsᵉdâqâh
rightness (abstractly), subjectively (rectitude), objectively (justice), morally (virtue) or figuratively (prosperity)
Study H6666 →דֶּרֶךְ derek
a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
Study H1870 →Cross References
The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.
Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.
The righteous man wisely considereth the house of the wicked: but God overthroweth the wicked for their wickedness.
Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD; therefore I shall not slide.
He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.
His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, which smote him: and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them, therefore will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they were th...
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