King James Version
Proverbs 8:36 in the King James Version says “But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.” — study this verse from Proverbs chapter 8 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.”
Proverbs 8:36 · KJV
Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD. obtain: Heb. bring forth
But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“But he that sinneth”
H2398properly, to miss; hence (figuratively and generally) to sin; by inference, to forfeit, lack, expiate, repent, (causatively) lead astray, condemn
“his own soul”
H5315properly, a breathing creature, i.e., animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or ment
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“death”
H4194death (natural or violent); concretely, the dead, their place or state (hades); figuratively, pestilence, ruin
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