Proverbs 16:27 BSB — MannaFest

Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
אִ֣ישׁ	'ish	a person of	H376 →
בְּ֭לִיַּעַל	Be.li.ya.'al	worthlessness	H1100 →
כֹּרֶ֣ה	ko.Reh	[is] digging up	H3738 →
רָעָ֑ה	ra.'Ah	evil	H7451 →
וְעַל־	ve.'al-	and [is] on	H5921 →
שְׂ֝פָת֗וֹ	se.fa.tav	lip his	H8193 →
כְּאֵ֣שׁ	ke.'Esh	like a fire	H784 →
צָרָֽבֶת׃	tza.Ra.vet	scorching	H6867 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
James 3:6
The tongue also is a fire, a world of wickedness among the parts of the body. It pollutes the whole person, sets the course of his life on fire, and is itself set on…
leads to
- Psalms 120:2–3
  Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips and a deceitful tongue.
- Mark 7:15
  Nothing that enters a man from the outside can defile him; but the things that come out of a man, these are what defile him.”
- Matthew 15:11–20
  A man is not defiled by what enters his mouth, but by what comes out of it.”
- Proverbs 15:1
  A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
- Mark 7:20–22
  He continued: “What comes out of a man, that is what defiles him.
Through
Proverbs 6:12
A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth,
leads to
- Matthew 12:34
  You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.
- Proverbs 4:24
  Put away deception from your mouth; keep your lips from perverse speech.
- 1 Timothy 5:13
  At the same time they will also learn to be idle, going from house to house and being not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, discussing things they should not mention.

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

Psalms 119:85The arrogant have dug pits for me in violation of Your law.James 3:6The tongue also is a fire, a world of wickedness among the parts of the body. It pollutes the whole person, sets the course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.Proverbs 10:12Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers all transgressions.Proverbs 6:14With deceit in his heart he devises evil; he continually sows discord.1 Samuel 25:17Now consider carefully what you must do, because disaster looms over our master and all his household. For he is such a scoundrel that nobody can speak to him!”Psalms 52:2–4Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.Proverbs 6:12A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth,Psalms 57:4My soul is among the lions; I lie down with ravenous beasts— with men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.Isaiah 5:18Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of deceit and pull sin along with cart ropes,Psalms 17:14–15from such men, O LORD, by Your hand— from men of the world whose portion is in this life. May You fill the bellies of Your treasured ones and satisfy their sons, so they leave their abundance to their children.Psalms 120:4Sharp arrows will come from the warrior, with burning coals of the broom tree!Proverbs 2:4if you seek it like silver and search it out like hidden treasure,Proverbs 16:30He who winks his eye devises perversity; he who purses his lips is bent on evil.2 Samuel 20:1Now a worthless man named Sheba son of Bichri, a Benjamite, happened to be there, and he blew the ram’s horn and shouted: “We have no share in David, no inheritance in Jesse’s son. Every man to his tent, O Israel!”Habakkuk 2:13Is it not indeed from the LORD of Hosts that the labor of the people only feeds the fire, and the nations weary themselves in vain?

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