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NASB					Rom 12:20 "^ABUT IF¹⁴³⁷ YOUR ENEMY²¹⁹⁰ IS HUNGRY³⁹⁸³, FEED⁵⁵⁹⁵ HIM, AND IF¹⁴³⁷ HE IS THIRSTY¹³⁷², GIVE⁴²²² HIM A DRINK⁴²²²; FOR IN SO³⁷⁷⁸ DOING⁴¹⁶⁰ YOU WILL HEAP⁴⁹⁸⁷ BURNING⁴⁴⁴² COALS⁴⁴⁰ ON HIS HEAD²⁷⁷⁶."
AMPLIFIED 2015					Rom 12:20 "BUT IF YOUR ENEMY IS HUNGRY, FEED HIM; IF HE IS THIRSTY, GIVE HIM A DRINK; FOR BY DOING THIS YOU WILL HEAP ¹BURNING COALS ON HIS HEAD." [Prov 25:21, 22]

Amplified 2015 Translator's Notes:
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This may refer to an ancient Egyptian custom in which a penitent person carried a bowl of burning embers on his head to show his shame and guilt. By analogy, being kind to an enemy may lead him to shame and repentance.

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2 Kin 6:22 He answered, "You shall not kill them. Would you kill those you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow? Set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink and go to their master."

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440

anthrax; a prim. word; coal, charcoal:--coals(1).

1372

dipsaô; from dipsa (thirst); to thirst:--am thirsty(1), thirst(5), thirsts(1), thirsty(9).

1437

ean; contr. from 1487 and 302; if (a conditional particle used like 1487, but usually with the Gr. subjunctive mood):--case(1), everyone(1), except*(1), if(222), if*(2), or*(1), though(2), unless*(34), whatever*(22), when(2), whenever*(2), wherever*(8), whether*(1), whoever*(17), whomever*(2).

2190

echthros; from echthos (hatred); hostile:--enemies(20), enemy(10), enemy*(1), hostile(1).

2776

kephalê; a prim. word; the head:--chief(4), hair(1), head(50), heads(19), very(1).

3778

houtos,
hautê,
touto; prob. from a redupl. of 3588, used as a demonstrative pron.; this:--afterward*(3), especially(1), fact(2), follow*(1), here*(1), hereafter*(1), man(1), now*(1), one(2), one whom(1), partly*(1), person(1), present(1), same(1), so(1), so then*(1), so*(1), some(2), such(2), therefore*(16), these(179), these...things(1), these men(10), these people(1), these things(192), this(737), this man(56), this man's(2), this one(4), this reason*(1), this thing(2), this way(1), this woman(4), this*(1), this...thing(1), those(2), those things(1), very(3), very thing(2), who(2), whom(1).

3983

peinaô; from peina (hunger); to hunger, be hungry:--going hungry(1), hunger(4), hungry(18).

4160

poieô; a prim. word; to make, do:--accomplished(1), act(4), acted(3), acting(1), acts(2), appointed(3), away*(1), bear(5), bearing(1), bears(3), become(1), bore(1), bring(1), bring...to pass(1), bring about(2), bringing(1), brings forth(1), call(1), carried(1), carries(1), carry(1), cause(3), causes(2), causing(1), commit(2), commits(2), committed(4), composed(1), consider(1), created things(1), dealt(1), did(33), did...do(2), do(170), does(16), does...do(1), doing(38), done(43), establishing(1), execute(4), exercises(1), expose*(1), formed(1), formed a conspiracy(1), forms(1), gave(4), give(4), gives(1), giving(1), have(2), have kept(1), having(1), held(1), indulging(1), keep(3), keeps(1), kept(1), made(38), make(47), makes(7), making(9), observe(2), offer(1), offering(1), perform(4), performed(8), performing(7), performs(1), practice(5), practices(11), practicing(1), present(1), proceeding(1), produce(3), produced(1), produces(2), producing(1), provide(1), put(1), satisfy*(1), setting(1), show(2), showed(1), shown(1), spend(1), spent(4), took(1), treat(6), treated(1), weaker(1), worked(1), working(1).

4222

potizô; from potos (drink, for drinking); to give to drink:--drink(2), gave...a drink(2), gave...to drink(5), gives(2), made...drink(1), made to drink(1), water(1), watered(1), waters(2).

4442

pur; a prim. word; fire:--burning(2), fiery(2), fire(69).

4987

sôreuô; from sôros (a heap); to heap on:--heap(1), weighed down(1).

5595

psômizô; from 5596; to feed with morsels:--feed(2), give(1).

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