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Proverbs 23:14

Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.

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אַ֭תָּהatahtheeאַתָּהpronoun, personal, 2nd person, masculine, singular — “thee”H859thou and thee, or (plural) ye and youthee, thou, ye, you.בַּשֵּׁ֣בֶטbashevetin dartשֵׁבֶטpreposition, with the article, noun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “in dart”, the ordinary formH7626a scion, i.e. (literally) a stick (for punishing, writing, fighting, ruling, walking, etc.) or (figuratively) a clan[idiom] correction, dart, rod, sceptre, staff, tribe.תַּכֶּ֑נּוּtakenvstrikeנָכָהverb, hiphil, imperfect, 2nd person, masculine, singular, suffix, pronominal, 3rd person, masculine, singular — “strike”, an unfinished actionH5221to strike (lightly or severely, literally or figuratively)beat, cast forth, clap, give (wounds), [idiom] go forward, [idiom] indeed, kill, make (slaughter), murderer, punish, slaughter, slay(-er, -ing), smite(-r, -ing), strike, be stricken, (give) stripes, [idiom] surely, wound.וְ֝נַפְשׁ֗וֹvenafshvoand creatureנֶפֶשׁconjunction, noun, common, both genders, singular, construct, suffix, pronominal, 3rd person, masculine, singular — “and creature”, the of-form, joined to the next wordH5315properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, [idiom] dead(-ly), desire, [idiom] (dis-) contented, [idiom] fish, ghost, [phrase] greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, [idiom] jeopardy of) life ([idiom] in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally,…מִשְּׁא֥וֹלmisholfrom graveשְׁאוֹלpreposition, noun, proper name — “from grave”H7585Hades or the world of the dead (as if a subterranean retreat), including its accessories and inmatesgrave, hell, pit.תַּצִּֽילtatsildefendנָצַלverb, hiphil, imperfect, 2nd person, masculine, singular — “defend”, an unfinished actionH5337to snatch away, whether in a good or a bad sense[idiom] at all, defend, deliver (self), escape, [idiom] without fail, part, pluck, preserve, recover, rescue, rid, save, spoil, strip, [idiom] surely, take (out).

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

Thou beatest him with the rod, and wilt deliver his soul from the nether-world.

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American Standard Version (1901)

Thou shalt beat him with the rod, And shalt deliver his soul from Sheol.

Young’s Literal Translation

Thou with a rod smitest him, And his soul from Sheol thou deliverest.

World English Bible

Punish him with the rod, and save his soul from Sheol.

Darby Translation

thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from Sheol.

Douay-Rheims

Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and deliver his soul from hell.

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

Thou beatest him with the rod, and wilt deliver his soul from the nether-world.

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

For thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from death.

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

Συ μὲν γὰρ πατάξεις αὐτὸν ῥάβδῳ, τὴν δὲ ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ ἐκ θανάτου ῥύσῃ.