What Does Proverbs 29:6 Mean in the King James?
In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare: but the righteous doth sing and rejoice.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The break itself becomes the trap; alignment carries the seed of song.
THE MEANING
Where rebellion governs your path, its own breach becomes a snare. Where you are aligned, song and joy rise as the path’s expression.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that breaking away guarantees freedom: the break itself can become the trap.
THE ROOT
פֶּשַׁע
peshaʿ
GROWS FROM
פ־ש־ע
p-sh-ʿ
To rebel, revolt, or break away.
English “transgression” can sound like crossing a line, but pesha names rebellion, a rupture. Here that rupture becomes its own constriction: the snare grows from within the breaking away.
ALSO GROWS
pashaʿ: To rebel or transgress.
פָּשַׁע
The verb shows rebellion as an enacted rupture, not merely a violation on record.
posheaʿ: One who rebels; a transgressor.
פֹּשֵׁעַ
The same root names the person shaped by that breaking away.
מוֹקֵשׁ
moqesh
GROWS FROM
י־ק־ש
y-q-sh
To lay a snare or ensnare.
The snare belongs to a word family that names both the act of trapping and the trapper. The verse’s danger is an entanglement that catches a person through the course of rebellion itself.
ALSO GROWS
yaqash: To lay a snare; to ensnare.
יָקַשׁ
The verb reveals the active catching contained in the noun “snare.”
yaqosh: A fowler; one who sets a snare.
יָקוֹשׁ
The same root names the one who traps, making the snare’s catching force vivid.
צַדִּיק
tsaddiq
GROWS FROM
צ־ד־ק
ts-d-q
To be right, just, or aligned.
The English can make “righteous” sound like a moral label; its Hebrew root also carries the sense of alignment. In this verse, alignment finds expression in singing and joy.
ALSO GROWS
tsedeq: Justice, rightness, alignment.
צֶדֶק
It names the quality that the righteous person embodies.
tsedaqah: Righteousness or justice.
צְדָקָה
It extends the same root into a quality expressed in life and action.
THE PATTERN
Rebellion’s own course becomes constriction, while alignment expresses itself in joy.
His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness.Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.THE THREAD
The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.The same Hebrew word צַדִּיק (tsaddiq, righteous or aligned) appears in both verses. Proverbs 10:28 names gladness as the righteous person’s hope, widening this verse’s song into the fruit of an aligned path.
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