Proverbs 14:25
WEB
A truthful witness saves souls, but a false witness is deceitful.
BSB
A truthful witness saves lives, but one who utters lies is deceitful.
KJV
A true witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful witness speaketh lies.
Matthew Henry
Hebrew interlinear
H5337
v — snatch
Derivation: a primitive root;
to snatch away, whether in a good or a bad sense
KJV: × at all, defend, deliver (self), escape, × without fail, part, pluck, preserve, recover, rescue, rid, save, spoil, strip, × surely, take (out).
vb — strip
[נָצַל] 212 vb. not in Qal; Pi. strip, plunder; Niph. deliver oneself, be delivered Hiph. snatch away, deliver
Niph.
1. reflex. tear oneself away, deliver oneself
2. passive, be torn out or away
Pi.
1. strip off, spoil
2. deliver
Hiph.
1. take away, snatch away
2. rescue, recover
3. deliver from
4. deliver from sin and guilt
Hoph. as a brand plucked out of the burning
Hithp. and they stripped themselves of their ornaments.
H5315
n-f — breathing creature, animal, vitality
Derivation: from 5314;
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
KJV: any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, × dead(-ly), desire, × (dis-) contented, × fish, ghost, greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, × jeopardy of) life (× in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-) self, them (your) -selves, slay, soul, tablet, they, thing, (× she) will, × would have it.
n.f — soul
נֶ֫פֶשׁ 756 n.f. soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, appetite, emotion, and passion
1. = that which breathes, the breathing substance or being
2. The נפשׁ becomes a living being
3. The נפשׁ is specif.
4. The נפשׁ as the essential of man stands for the man himself
5. נפשׁ = seat of the appetites, in all periods (46 t.)
6. נ׳ = seat of emotions and passions
7. נפשׁ is used occasionally for mental acts
8. נפשׁ for acts of the will is dub.
9. נפשׁ = character is still more dub.
10. נ׳ in D
H5707
n-m — witness, testimony, recorder, prince
Derivation: contracted from 5749;
concretely, a witness; abstractly, testimony; specifically, a recorder, i.e. prince
KJV: witness.
n.m — witness
עֵד 69 n.m. witness (prob. fr. reiterating, hence emphatically affirming)
1. witness, testimony, evidence, of things
2. witness, a person
H571
n-f — stability, certainty, truth, trustworthiness
Derivation: contracted from 539;
stability; (figuratively) certainty, truth, trustworthiness
KJV: assured(-ly), establishment, faithful, right, sure, true (-ly, -th), verity.
n.f — firmness
אֱמֶת n.f. firmness, faithfulness
1. reliability, sureness
2. stability, continuance
3. faithfulness, reliableness
4. truth
5. adv. in truth, truly
H6315
v — puff, blow with the breath, air, fan, utter, kindle, scoff
Derivation: a primitive root;
to puff, i.e. blow with the breath or air; hence, to fan (as a breeze), to utter, to kindle (a fire), to scoff
KJV: blow (upon), break, puff, bring into a snare, speak, utter.
vb — breathe
[פּוּחַ] vb. breathe, blow
Qal until the day breathes, i.e. grows cool
Hiph.
1. cause garden to exhale
2.
a. puff, snort, against
b. with the fire of my wrath will I blow against thee
c. excite, inflame city
d. puff = pant for it
3. breathe out, utter
H3577
n-m — falsehood
Derivation: from 3576;
falsehood; literally (untruth) or figuratively (idol)
KJV: deceitful, false, leasing, liar, lie, lying.
n.m — lie
כָּזָב n.m. lie, falsehood, deceptive thing
H4820
n-f — fraud
Derivation: from 7411 in the sense of deceiving;
fraud
KJV: craft, deceit(-ful, -fully), false, feigned, guile, subtilly, treachery.
n.f — deceit
מִרְמָה n.f. deceit, treachery
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Verse 25
Proverbs 14:25
See here, 1. How much praise is due to a faithful witness: He delivers the souls of the innocent, who are falsely accused, and their good names, which are as dear to them as their lives. A man of integrity will venture the displeasure of the greatest, to bring truth to light and rescue those who are injured by falsehood. A faithful minister, who truly witnesses for God against sin, is thereby instrumental to deliver souls from eternal death. 2. How little regard is to be had to a false witness. He forges lies, and yet pours them out with the greatest assurance imaginable for the destruction of the innocent. It is therefore the interest of a nation by all means possible to detect and punish false-witness-bearing, yea, and lying in common conversation; for truth is the cement of society.