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by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.
Bible Verse Dictionary
Proverbs 23:2 - Put
Proverbs 23:2 - And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
Verse | Strongs No. | Hebrew | |
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And put | H7760 | שׂוּם |
[Verb] to put (used in a great variety of {applications} {literally} {figuratively} inferentially and elliptically) |
a knife | H7915 | שַׂכִּין |
[Noun Masculine] a knife (as pointed or edged) |
to thy throat | H3930 | לֹעַ |
[Noun Masculine] the gullet |
if | H518 | אִם |
used very widely as {demonstrative} lo !; {interrogitive} whether ?; or {conditional} if: although; also Oh {that !} when; hence as a {negative} not |
thou | H859 | אַתָּה |
thou and {thee} or (plural) ye and you |
be a man | H1167 | בַּעַל |
[Noun Masculine] a master; hence a {husband} or (figuratively) owner (often used with another noun in modifications of this latter sense |
given to appetite | H5315 | נֶפֶשׁ |
[Noun Feminine] properly a breathing {creature} that {is} animal or (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a {literal} accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental) |
Definitions are taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.