King James Version
Proverbs 1:16 in the King James Version says “For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.” — study this verse from Proverbs chapter 1 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.”
Proverbs 1:16 · KJV
Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird . in the: Heb. in the eyes of every thing that hath a wing
And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
KJV Study — Public Domain
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
“For their feet”
H7272a foot (as used in walking); by implication, a step; by euphemistically the pudenda
“and make haste”
H4116properly, to be liquid or flow easily, i.e., (by implication)
“to shed”
H8210to spill forth (blood, a libation, liquid metal; or even a solid, i.e., to mound up); also (figuratively) to expend (life, soul, complaint, money, etc
“blood”
H1818blood (as that which when shed causes death) of man or an animal; by analogy, the juice of the grape; figuratively (especially in the plural) bloodshe
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