Proverbs 4:19
Old Testament • 5 words with Strong's data
"The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble."
Word-by-Word Analysis
דֶּרֶךְ
derek
a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
רָשָׁע
râshâʻ
morally wrong; concretely, an (actively) bad person
חֹשֶׁךְ
chôshek
the dark; hence (literally) darkness; figuratively, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness
יָדַע
yâdaʻ
to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including o...
כָּשַׁל
kâshal
to totter or waver (through weakness of the legs, especially the ankle); by implication, to falter, stumble, faint or fall
Key Terms in This Verse
כָּשַׁל kâshal
to totter or waver (through weakness of the legs, especially the ankle); by implication, to falter, stumble, faint or fall
Study H3782 →חֹשֶׁךְ chôshek
the dark; hence (literally) darkness; figuratively, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness
Study H2822 →דֶּרֶךְ derek
a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
Study H1870 →יָדַע yâdaʻ
to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively, in...
Study H3045 →Cross References
Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.
Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.
He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.
Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross da...
But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.
They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.
Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
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