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Proverbs 10:7

The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.

KJV

Memoria justi cum laudibus, et nomen impiorum putrescet.

Vulgate

μνήμη δικαίων μετ’ ἐγκωμίων, ὄνομα δὲ ἀσεβοῦς σβέννυται.

LXX

The memory of the righteous is blessed; But the name of the wicked shall rot.

ASV

זֵ֣כֶר צַ֭דִּיק לִ/בְרָכָ֑ה וְ/שֵׁ֖ם רְשָׁעִ֣ים יִרְקָֽב

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

בְּרָכָ֖ה
brkh
noun · 68×
וֹ
v
noun · 848×
זֵ֣כֶר
zkr
noun · 23×
יִרְקַ֖ב
yrqb
verb · 2×
צַדִּ֑יק
tsdyq
adjective · 199×
רְשָׁעִ֣ים
rsh'ym
adjective · 257×

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 2Chr 24:16 — And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, both toward God, and toward his house.
  • 2Chr 32:33 — And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the chiefest of the sepulchres of the sons of David: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honour at his death. And Manasse
  • Acts 9:39 — Then Peter arose and went with them. When he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him weeping, and shewing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, while she
  • Deut 7:24 — And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them.
  • Eccl 8:10 — And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.
  • Gen 11:4 — And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
  • Isa 14:22 — For I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the LORD.
  • Isa 26:14 — They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.
  • Jer 11:19 — But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off
  • Jer 17:13 — O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.
  • Job 18:17 — His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
  • Job 18:17 — His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
  • Job 24:20 — The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.
  • Luke 1:48 — For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.
  • Mark 14:9 — Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.
  • Nah 1:14 — And the LORD hath given a commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will make thy grave; for t
  • Ps 9:5 — Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.
  • Ps 9:5 — Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.
  • Ps 34:16 — The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
  • Ps 41:5 — Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?
  • Ps 109:13 — Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
  • Ps 109:13 — Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
  • Ps 109:15 — Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
  • Ps 112:6 — Surely he shall not be moved for ever: the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance.
  • Ps 112:6 — Surely he shall not be moved for ever: the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance.