Proverbs 16:28
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Abroad Cause Chief Close Contention Dissension Everywhere Evil Familiar Fighting Forth Friend Friends Froward Gossip Intimate Makes Perverse Purposes Scattereth Secretly Separates Separateth Slanderer Soweth Spreads Stirs Strife Tale-Bearer Trouble Twisted Whisperer
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Abroad Cause Chief Close Contention Dissension Everywhere Evil Familiar Fighting Forth Friend Friends Froward Gossip Intimate Makes Perverse Purposes Scattereth Secretly Separates Separateth Slanderer Soweth Spreads Stirs Strife Tale-Bearer Trouble Twisted Whisperer
Parallel Verses
English Standard Version
A dishonest man spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.

New American Standard Bible
A perverse man spreads strife, And a slanderer separates intimate friends.

King James Bible
A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
A contrary man spreads conflict, and a gossip separates close friends.

International Standard Version
A deceitful man stirs dissension, and anyone who gossips separates friends.

NET Bible
A perverse person spreads dissension, and a gossip separates the closest friends.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
An evil man provokes judgment and persecutes his friends without cause.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
A devious person spreads quarrels. A gossip separates the closest of friends.

King James 2000 Bible
A perverse man sows strife: and a whisperer separates best friends.

American King James Version
A fraudulent man sows strife: and a whisperer separates chief friends.

American Standard Version
A perverse man scattereth abroad strife; And a whisperer separateth chief friends.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A perverse man stirreth up quarrels: and one full of words separateth princes.

Darby Bible Translation
A false man soweth contention; and a talebearer separateth very friends.

English Revised Version
A froward man scattereth abroad strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.

Webster's Bible Translation
A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.

World English Bible
A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.

Young's Literal Translation
A froward man sendeth forth contention, A tale-bearer is separating a familiar friend.
Lexicon
A froward
tahpukah  (tah-poo-kaw')
a perversity or fraud -- (very) froward(-ness, thing), perverse thing.
man
'iysh  (eesh)
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
soweth
shalach  (shaw-lakh')
to send away, for, or out (in a great variety of applications)
strife
madown  (maw-dohn')
a contest or quarrel -- brawling, contention(-ous), discord, strife.
and a whisperer
nirgan  (neer-gawn')
a slanderer -- talebearer, whisperer.
separateth
parad  (paw-rad')
to break through, i.e. spread or separate (oneself) -- disperse, divide, be out of joint, part, scatter (abroad), separate (self), sever self, stretch, sunder.
chief friends
'alluwph  (al-loof')
familiar; a friend, also gentle; hence, a bullock (as being tame; applied, although masculine, to a cow); and so, a chieftain (as notable, like neat cattle)
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