Proverbs 6:12
Old Testament • 7 words with Strong's data
"A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth."
Word-by-Word Analysis
בְּלִיַּעַל
bᵉlîyaʻal
without profit, worthlessness; by extension, destruction, wickedness
נֶפֶשׁ
nephesh
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or menta...
רָשָׁע
râshâʻ
morally wrong; concretely, an (actively) bad person
אִישׁ
ʼîysh
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
הָלַךְ
hâlak
to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
פֶּה
peh
the mouth (as the means of blowing), whether literal or figurative (particularly speech); specifically edge, portion or side; adverbially (with prepos...
Key Terms in This Verse
בְּלִיַּעַל bᵉlîyaʻal
without profit, worthlessness; by extension, destruction, wickedness
Study H1100 →הָלַךְ hâlak
to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
Study H1980 →נֶפֶשׁ nephesh
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
Study H5315 →פֶּה peh
the mouth (as the means of blowing), whether literal or figurative (particularly speech); specifically edge, portion or side; adverbially (with preposition) according to
Study H6310 →אִישׁ ʼîysh
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
Study H376 →Cross References
O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.
Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?
Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.
The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness.
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.
To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;
For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.
Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.
And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.
And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the men; and Eliab’s anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why camest thou down hither? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in th...
Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
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