Proverbs 4:17
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Berean Study Bible
For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

Young's Literal Translation
For they have eaten bread of wickedness, And wine of violence they drink.

King James Bible
For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

Hebrew
since
כִּ֣י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

they eat
לָ֭חֲמוּ (lā·ḥă·mū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 3898: To feed on, to consume, to battle

the bread
לֶ֣חֶם (le·ḥem)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3899: Food, bread, grain

of wickedness
רֶ֑שַׁע (re·ša‘)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7562: Wickedness

and drink
יִשְׁתּֽוּ׃ (yiš·tū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 8354: To imbibe

the wine
וְיֵ֖ין (wə·yên)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3196: Wine, intoxication

of violence.
חֲמָסִ֣ים (ḥă·mā·sîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 2555: Violence, wrong, by meton, unjust gain

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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