Proverbs 6:29

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כֵּ֗ן הַ֭בָּא אֶל־אֵ֣שֶׁת רֵעֵ֑הוּ לֹ֥א יִ֝נָּקֶ֗ה כָּֽל־הַנֹּגֵ֥עַ בָּֽהּ׃

Transliteration

Thus the-one-habbāʾ to-ʾēšet rēʿēhû not yinnāqeh all the-one-hannōḡēaʿ in-her

Grammar Details

*habbāʾ*: article + verb, qal participle masculine singular - the one who comes/goes
*ʾēšet*: noun, feminine singular construct - wife of
*rēʿēhû*: noun, masculine singular with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his neighbor
*yinnāqeh*: verb, niphal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - he will be innocent/go unpunished
*hannōḡēaʿ*: article + verb, qal participle masculine singular - the one who touches

Word Meanings

*habbāʾ*: the one who comes/the one who enters
*yinnāqeh*: will be innocent/will go unpunished/will be free
*hannōḡēaʿ*: the one who touches/the one who makes contact with

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Gen 12:18-19 : 18 And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife? 19 Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.
Gen 20:4-7 : 4 But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Lord, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation? 5 Said he not unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this. 6 And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her. 7 Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine.
Gen 26:10-11 : 10 And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto us? one of the people might lightly have lien with thy wife, and thou shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us. 11 And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.
Lev 20:10 : 10 And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
2 Sam 11:3-4 : 3 And David sent and enquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite? 4 And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness: and she returned unto her house.
2 Sam 12:9-9 : 9 Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. 10 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.
2 Sam 16:21 : 21 And Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Go in unto thy father's concubines, which he hath left to keep the house; and all Israel shall hear that thou art abhorred of thy father: then shall the hands of all that are with thee be strong.
Prov 16:5 : 5 Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.
Jer 5:8-9 : 8 They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife. 9 Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Ezek 22:11 : 11 And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father's daughter.
Mal 3:5 : 5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.
1 Cor 7:1 : 1 Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

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Lev 18:18-20
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18Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.
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