King James Version
Proverbs 6:17 in the King James Version says “A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, A proud: Heb. Haughty eyes” — study this verse from Proverbs chapter 6 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, A proud: Heb. Haughty eyes”
Proverbs 6:17 · KJV
Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.
These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: unto: Heb. of his soul
A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, A proud: Heb. Haughty eyes
An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“look”
H5869an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
“A proud”
H7311to be high actively, to rise or raise (in various applications, literally or figuratively)
“tongue”
H3956the tongue (of man or animals), used literally (as the instrument of licking, eating, or speech), and figuratively (speech, an ingot, a fork of flame,
“and hands”
H3027a hand (the open one [indicating power, means, direction, etc.], in distinction from h3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great v
“that 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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