Proverbs 4:17
Old Testament • 6 words with Strong's data
"For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence."
Word-by-Word Analysis
אָכַל
ʼâkal
to eat (literally or figuratively)
לֶחֶם
lechem
food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it)
רַע
raʻ
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
שָׁתָה
shâthâh
to imbibe (literally or figuratively)
יַיִן
yayin
wine (as fermented); by implication, intoxication
חָמָס
châmâç
violence; by implication, wrong; by meton. unjust gain
Key Terms in This Verse
לֶחֶם lechem
food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it)
Study H3899 →Cross References
For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.
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