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Forכִּיmy palateחִכִּיwill utterיֶהְגֶּהtruth,אֱמֶתandוְwickednessרֶשַׁעis an abominationתוֹעֲבַתto my lips.שְׂפָתַי
Proverbs 8:7
Study it in the app“For my palate will utter truth, and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Proverbs 8:7, word by word
- my palateחִכִּchiki
palate, mouth
The palate, the inside of the mouth; the mouth as the organ of taste and of speech.
Where else “chiki” appears- will utterיֶהְגֶּהyehge
mutter
To say something softly.
Where else “yehge” appears- truthאֱמֶתemet
truth
What corresponds to the facts, what is so and not otherwise.
Where else “emet” appears- wickednessרֶשַׁעresha
wickedness
Wickedness: what is unjust and evil.
Where else “resha” appears- is an abominationתוֹעֲבַתtoavat
abomination
Abomination: something that a people or God rejects with disgust, above all idolatry and the practices God forbids; also a custom another people will not tolerate.
Where else “toavat” appears- to my lipsשְׂפָתַsefata
lip
The part of the mouth with which one speaks, and so what one says.
Where else “sefata” appears
The context
6Listen, for noble things I will speak, and the opening of my lips will be uprightness.
7 · This verse (above)
8In righteousness are all the sayings of my mouth; there is nothing in them twisted or crooked.