Proverbs 6:17

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

A oud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

עֵינַ֣יִם רָ֭מוֹת לְשׁ֣וֹן שָׁ֑קֶר וְ֝יָדַ֗יִם שֹׁפְכ֥וֹת דָּם־נָקִֽי׃

Transliteration

ʿênayim rāmôt ləšôn šāqer and-yādayim šōpḵôt dām-nāqî

Grammar Details

• *ʿênayim*: noun, feminine dual - eyes
• *rāmôt*: adjective, feminine plural - haughty/lofty
• *ləšôn*: noun, feminine singular construct - tongue of
• *šāqer*: noun, masculine singular - falsehood/lie
• *yādayim*: noun, feminine dual - hands
• *šōpḵôt*: verb, qal participle feminine plural - pouring out/shedding
• *dām*: noun, masculine singular construct - blood of
• *nāqî*: adjective, masculine singular - innocent

Word Meanings

• *rāmôt*: haughty/lofty/proud
• *šāqer*: falsehood/lie/deception
• *šōpḵôt*: pouring out/shedding/spilling

Referenced Verses

• Prov 12:22 : 22 Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight.
• Ps 101:5 : 5 Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.
• Isa 1:15 : 15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
• Ps 120:2-3 : 2 Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying li, and from a deceitful tongue. 3 What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue?
• Ps 18:27 : 27 For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.
• Deut 19:10 : 10 That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon thee.
• Ps 5:6 : 6 Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.
• Isa 2:11 : 11 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
• Isa 3:9 : 9 The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.
• Isa 3:16 : 16 Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:
• Prov 14:5 : 5 A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies.
• Prov 21:4 : 4 An high look, and a oud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin.
• Prov 26:28 : 28 A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.
• Prov 30:13 : 13 There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.
• Prov 1:11 : 11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk ivily for the innocent without cause:
• Prov 17:7 : 7 Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a ince.
• Isa 59:3-7 : 3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness. 4 None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. 5 They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper. 6 Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands. 7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
• Hos 4:1-2 : 1 Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. 2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
• John 8:44 : 44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
• 1 Pet 5:5 : 5 Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
• Rev 22:15 : 15 For without a dogs, and sorcers, and whomongers, and murders, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
• Ps 10:4 : 4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
• Deut 27:25 : 25 Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen.
• 2 Kgs 24:4 : 4 And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not pardon.
• Ps 31:18 : 18 Let the lying li be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
• Ps 73:6-8 : 6 Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment. 7 Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish. 8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.
• Ps 131:1 : 1 A Song of degrees of David. LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.