To All:The BDB general gloss is "turn aside, depart". But for 3:32, the niphal, is listed under the definition "fig., devious, crooked". And on 4:21, hiphil, BDB glosses the phrase "let them [my words] not depart... from thine eyes (strictly, let them not practise, exhibit, deviation, direct causative...)"
In looking at the verb LWZ as it is used in, for example, Proverbs 3:21, 32
4:21. it seems to have the meaning of beguiling, enticing (away) and taking
away by trickery or fraud. I'm pretty certain that's not the gloss given for
it in BDB. Any reason why it should not be understood in this manner?
Karl W. Randolph.
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