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Do notאַלbeתְּהִיa witnessעֵדagainst your neighborבְּרֵעֶךָwithout cause;חִנָּםand would you deceiveוַהֲפִתִּיתָwith your lips?בִּשְׂפָתֶיךָ
Proverbs 24:28
Study it in the app“Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause; and would you deceive with your lips?”
With the Hebrew beneath
Proverbs 24:28, word by word
- beתְּהִיtehi
be
To be: "I will be their Elohim".
Where else “tehi” appears- a witnessעֵדed
witness
Someone who vouches for what he saw; YHWH is one too.
Where else “ed” appears- against your neighborרֵעֶree
neighbor
The person living near, anyone one deals with.
Where else “ree” appears- without causeחִנָּםchinam
without cause
With no reason or guilt to justify it.
Where else “chinam” appears- and would you deceiveפִתִּיתָfitita
entice
To win someone over by trickery.
Where else “fitita” appears- with your lipsשְׂפָתֶיsefate
lip
The part of the mouth with which one speaks, and so what one says.
Where else “sefate” appears
The context
27Prepare your work outside, and get it ready in the field for yourself; afterward build your house.
28 · This verse (above)
29Do not say, “As he did to me, so I will do to him; I will repay the man according to his work.”