Proverbs 17:4

Derivation: a primitive root;

properly, to spoil (literally, by breaking to pieces); figuratively, to make (or be) good for nothing, i.e. bad (physically, socially or morally)

KJV: afflict, associate selves (by mistake for 7462), break (down, in pieces), displease, (be, bring, do) evil (doer, entreat, man), show self friendly (by mistake for 7462), do harm, (do) hurt, (behave self, deal) ill, × indeed, do mischief, punish, still, vex, (do) wicked (doer, -ly), be (deal, do) worse.

[רָעַע] 98 vb. denom. be evil, bad

Qal

1. be displeasing

2. be sad

3. be injurious, evil

4. be evil, wicked, ethically

Niph. suffer hurt

Hiph. 70

1. do an injury, hurt

2. do evil, wickedly

[רָעַע] vb. break

Qal

1. trans. can one break iron, iron out of the north ?

2. intrans. break = be broken

Hithpō‛. the earth is broken asunder

Derivation: a primitive root;

to prick up the ears, i.e. hearken

KJV: attend, (cause to) hear(-ken), give heed, incline, mark (well), regard.

[קָשַׁב] 46 vb. incline, attend, of ears

Qal Is 32:3

Hiph. give attention

Derivation: properly, the same as 5920 used as a preposition (in the singular or plural often with prefix, or as conjunction with a particle following);

above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications

KJV: above, according to(-ly), after, (as) against, among, and, × as, at, because of, beside (the rest of), between, beyond the time, × both and, by (reason of), × had the charge of, concerning for, in (that), (forth, out) of, (from) (off), (up-) on, over, than, through(-out), to, touching, × with.

כִּי עַל כֵּן forasmuch as

עַל, עָ֑ל

I. subst. height

II. As prep. upon, and hence on the ground of, according to, on account of, on behalf of, concerning, beside, in addition to, together with, beyond, above, over, by, on to, towards, to, against

1. Upon, of the substratum upon which an object in any way rests, or on which an action is performed

a. —

(a). of clothing, etc., which any one wears

(b). With verbs of covering or protecting, even though the cover or veil be not over or above the thing covered, but around or before it

b. Of what rests heavily upon a person, or is a burden to him

c. Of a duty, payment, care, etc., imposed upon a person, or devolving on him

d. על is used idiom. to give pathos to the expression of an emotion, by emphasizing the person who is its subject, and who, as it were, feels it acting upon him

e. חָיָה עַל to live upon (as upon a foundation or support)

f. Of the ground or basis, on which a thing is done

2. It expresses excess

3. It denotes elevation or pre-eminence

4. It expresses addition

5. It expresses the idea of being extended, or suspended over anything, without however being in contact with it, above, over

6. From the sense of inclining or impending over, על comes to denote contiguity or proximity, Engl. by (or sts. on)

7. In connection with verbs of motion (actual or fig.)

8. By writers of the silver age, על is sts. used with the force of a dative

9. With other particles:

III. As conj.

a. עַל אֲשֶׁר because that

b. עַל כִּי similar in meaning, but less frequent

c. עַל alone:

(a). because

(b). notwithstanding that, although

IV. Compounds:

1. with כְּ (rare and late)

a. as concerning, as upon

b. the like of their deeds is the like of (that which) he will repay

2. מֵעַל from upon, from over, from by

Derivation: or (in dual and plural) שֶׂפֶת; probably from 5595 or 8192 through the idea of termination (compare 5490);

the lip (as a natural boundary); by implication, language; by analogy, a margin (of a vessel, water, cloth, etc.)

KJV: band, bank, binding, border, brim, brink, edge, language, lip, prating, (sea-)shore, side, speech, talk, (vain) words.

שָׂפָה 176 n.f. lip, speech, edge

1. lip

2. language

3. edge: shore of sea; bank of river

Derivation: from an unused root perhaps meaning properly, to pant (hence, to exert oneself, usually in vain; to come to naught);

strictly nothingness; also trouble, vanity, wickedness; specifically an idol

KJV: affliction, evil, false, idol, iniquity, mischief, mourners(-ing), naught, sorrow, unjust, unrighteous, vain, vanity, wicked(-ness). Compare 369.

אָ֫וֶן 85 n.m. trouble, sorrow, wickedness

1. trouble, sorrow

2. idolatry

3. trouble of iniquity, wickedness

Derivation: from 8266;

an untruth; by implication, a sham (often adverbial)

KJV: without a cause, deceit(-ful), false(-hood, -ly), feignedly, liar, lie, lying, vain (thing), wrongfully.

שֶׁ֫קֶר 113 n.m. deception, disappointment, falsehood

1. deception, what deceives, disappoints, and betrays one

2. deceit, fraud, wrong

3. injurious falsehood, in testimony

4. falsity, of false or self-deceived prophets

5. lie, falsehood, in gen.

Derivation: a primitive root; probably to expand; but used only as a denominative from 241;

to broaden out the ear (with the hand), i.e. (by implication) to listen

KJV: give (perceive by the) ear, hear(-ken). See 239.

[אָזַן] 42 vb. denom. Hiph. give ear, listen, hear

1. hear, perceive by the ear

2. of God, listening (with favour) to prayer

Derivation: or לָשֹׁן; also (in plural) feminine לְשֹׁנָה; from 3960;

the tongue (of man or animals), used literally (as the instrument of licking, eating, or speech), and figuratively (speech, an ingot, a fork of flame, a cove of water)

KJV: babbler, bay, evil speaker, language, talker, tongue, wedge.

לָשׁוֹן n.m. and (more oft.) f. tongue

1. tongue of men

2. = language

3. tongue of animals

4. tongue of fire

5. = (tongue-shaped) wedge of gold

6. = (tongue-shaped) bay of sea

Derivation: from 1933 (in the sense of eagerly coveting and rushing upon;

by implication, of falling); desire; also ruin

KJV: calamity, iniquity, mischief, mischievous (thing), naughtiness, naughty, noisome, perverse thing, substance, very wickedness.

הַוָּה n.f. 1. desire; 2. chasm, fig. destruction