Proverbs 1:11 KJV
If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
Words Then and Now
- privily privately; secretly Still heard today: privy to a secret, in on it Webster’s 1828 · Privily
What these words mean in the King James Bible, and where you’ll still hear them today.
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Parallel Passages
- Psalms 10:8 He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.
From Thompson’s Chain-Reference Bible (1908).
Cross References
- Proverbs 1:18 And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
- Proverbs 12:6 The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
- Jeremiah 5:26 For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
- Psalms 10:8–10 He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor. …
- Psalms 17:12 Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
- Psalms 35:7 For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.
- Psalms 56:6 They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.
- Psalms 64:5–6 They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them? …
- Proverbs 1:16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
- Proverbs 30:14 There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
- Jeremiah 11:19 But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
- Jeremiah 18:18–20 Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words. …
- Micah 7:2 The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.
- Matthew 26:3–4 Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas, …
- John 15:25 But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
- Acts 23:15 Now therefore ye with the council signify to the chief captain that he bring him down unto you to morrow, as though ye would enquire something more perfectly concerning him: and we, or ever he come near, are ready to kill him.
- Acts 25:3 And desired favour against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying wait in the way to kill him.
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Topics
- Character Enticing to evil
- Fellowship With the wicked forbidden
- Homicide Felonious, or murder
- Personification Of wisdom
- Robbers General scriptures concerning Robbers
- Temptation General scriptures concerning Temptation
- Young men General scriptures concerning Young men
Hebrew and Strong’s
- If they say אִם ʾim Conjunction יֹאמְרוּ yōʾmĕrû אָמַר Verb · qal imperfect, third person masculine plural
- Come לְכָה lĕkâ יָלַךְ Verb · qal imperative, second person masculine singular
- with us, let us lay wait אִתָּנוּ ʾittānû Preposition · with suffix: first person common plural נֶאֶרְבָה neʾerbâ אָרַב Verb · qal cohortative, first person common plural
- for blood לְדָם lĕdām דָּם Noun · masculine singular · with preposition
- let us lurk נִצְפְּנָה niṣpĕnâ צָפַן Verb · qal cohortative, first person common plural
- privily for the innocent לְנָקִי lĕnāqî נָקִי Adjective · masculine singular · with preposition
- without cause חִנָּם ḥinnām חִנָּם Adverb
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