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Proverbs 4:15

Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.

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פְּרָעֵ֥הוּperaehvavengeפָּרַעverb, qal, imperative, 2nd person, masculine, singular, suffix, pronominal, 3rd person, masculine, singular — “avenge”, a commandH6544to loosen; by implication, to expose, dismiss; figuratively, absolve, beginavenge, avoid, bare, go back, let, (make) naked, set at nought, perish, refuse, uncover.אַלalnotאַלparticle, negative — “not”H408not (the qualified negation, used as a deprecative); once (Job 24:25) as a noun, nothingnay, neither, [phrase] never, no, nor, not, nothing (worth), rather than.תַּעֲבָרtaavaralienateעָבַרverb, qal, jussive, 2nd person, masculine, singular — “alienate”, a wish or indirect commandH5674to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in copulation)alienate, alter, [idiom] at all, beyond, bring (over, through), carry over, (over-) come (on, over), conduct (over), convey over, current, deliver, do away, enter, escape, fail, gender, get over, (make) go (away, beyond, by, forth, his way…בּ֑וֹbvoinבּ֑וֹpreposition, suffix, pronominal, 3rd person, masculine, singular — “in”inשְׂטֵ֖הsetehdeclineשָׂטָהverb, qal, imperative, 2nd person, masculine, singular — “decline”, a commandH7847to deviate from dutydecline, go aside, turn.מֵעָלָ֣יוmealayvfrom aboveעַלpreposition, preposition, suffix, pronominal, 3rd person, masculine, singular — “from above”H5921above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applicationsabove, according to(-ly), after, (as) against, among, and, [idiom] as, at, because of, beside (the rest of), between, beyond the time, [idiom] both and, by (reason of), [idiom] had the charge of, concerning for, in (that), (forth, out) of,…וַעֲבֽוֹרvaavorand alienateעָבַרconjunction, verb, qal, imperative, 2nd person, masculine, singular — “and alienate”, a commandH5674to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in copulation)alienate, alter, [idiom] at all, beyond, bring (over, through), carry over, (over-) come (on, over), conduct (over), convey over, current, deliver, do away, enter, escape, fail, gender, get over, (make) go (away, beyond, by, forth, his way…

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

Avoid it, pass not by it; turn from it, and pass on.

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American Standard Version (1901)

Avoid it, pass not by it; Turn from it, and pass on.

Young’s Literal Translation

Avoid it, pass not over into it, Turn aside from it, and pass on.

World English Bible

Avoid it, and don’t pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on.

Darby Translation

avoid it, pass not by it; turn from it, and pass away.

Douay-Rheims

Flee from it, pass not by it: go aside, and forsake it.

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

Avoid it, pass not by it; turn from it, and pass on.

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

In whatever place they shall pitch their camp, go not thither; but turn from them, and pass away.

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

Ἐν ᾧ ἂν τόπῳ στρατοπεδεύσωσι, μὴ ἐπέλθῃς ἐκεὶ, ἔκκλινον δὲ ἀπʼ αὐτῶν καὶ παράλλαξον.