1 Samuel 2:3

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Talk no more so exceeding proudly; Let not arrogancy come out of your mouth; For Jehovah is a God of knowledge, And by him actions are weighed.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אַל־תַּרְבּ֤וּ תְדַבְּרוּ֙ גְּבֹהָ֣ה גְבֹהָ֔ה יֵצֵ֥א עָתָ֖ק מִפִּיכֶ֑ם כִּ֣י אֵ֤ל דֵּעוֹת֙ יְהוָ֔ה וְל֥וֹ נִתְכְּנ֖וּ עֲלִלֽוֹת׃

Transliteration

ʾal-tarbû tədabbərû gəbōhâ gəbōhâ, yēṣēʾ ʿātāq from pîkem, because ʾēl of dēʿôt is YHWH, and to him nitəkənû ʿălilôt.

Grammar Details

• *ʾal*: negative particle with jussive - do not
• *tarbû*: Hiphil imperfect 2nd person masculine plural jussive - multiply/increase
• *tədabbərû*: Piel imperfect 2nd person masculine plural - you speak
• *gəbōhâ*: repetition for emphasis - very high/extremely proud
• *yēṣēʾ*: Qal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular jussive - let it come out
• *ʿātāq*: adjective masculine singular - arrogant/insolent
• *pîkem*: noun masculine singular construct with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your mouth
• *ʾēl*: noun masculine singular - God
• *dēʿôt*: noun feminine plural construct - knowledges/knowledge
• *YHWH*: divine name - Yahweh/LORD
• *nitəkənû*: Niphal perfect 3rd person plural - are weighed/measured
• *ʿălilôt*: noun feminine plural - actions/deeds

Word Meanings

• *ʿātāq*: arrogant/insolent/bold speech
• *dēʿôt*: knowledge/omniscience/perfect understanding
• *nitəkənû*: are weighed/measured/evaluated
• *ʿălilôt*: actions/deeds/practices

Referenced Verses

• 1 Kgs 8:39 : 39 then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling - place, and forgive, and do, and render unto every man according to all his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;)
• Prov 8:13 : 13 The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil: Pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, And the perverse mouth, do I hate.
• Dan 4:30-31 : 30 The king spake and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling-place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty? 31 While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, [saying], O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken: The kingdom is departed from thee:
• Dan 4:37 : 37 Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.
• Dan 5:27 : 27 TEKEL; thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
• Mal 3:13 : 13 Your words have been stout against me, saith Jehovah. Yet ye say, What have we spoken against thee?
• Heb 4:12 : 12 For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and quick to discern the thoughts and intents of the heart.
• Jude 1:15-16 : 15 to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have ungodly wrought, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. 16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their lusts (and their mouth speaketh great swelling [words]), showing respect of persons for the sake of advantage.
• Rev 2:23 : 23 And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he that searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto each one of you according to your works.
• 1 Sam 16:7 : 7 But Jehovah said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for [Jehovah seeth] not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but Jehovah looketh on the heart.
• Prov 16:2 : 2 All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; But Jehovah weigheth the spirits.
• Prov 24:12 : 12 If thou sayest, Behold, we knew not this; Doth not he that weigheth the hearts consider it? And he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? And shall not he render to every man according to his work?
• Isa 26:7 : 7 The way of the just is uprightness: thou that art upright dost direct the path of the just.
• Isa 37:23 : 23 Whom hast thou defied and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice and lifted up thine eyes on high? [even] against the Holy One of Israel.
• Jer 17:10 : 10 I, Jehovah, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.
• Job 31:6 : 6 (Let me be weighed in an even balance, That God may know mine integrity);
• Ps 44:21 : 21 Will not God search this out? For he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
• Ps 94:4 : 4 They prate, they speak arrogantly: All the workers of iniquity boast themselves.
• Ps 94:7-9 : 7 And they say, Jehovah will not see, Neither will the God of Jacob consider. 8 Consider, ye brutish among the people; And ye fools, when will ye be wise? 9 He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? He that formed the eye, shall he not see? 10 He that chastiseth the nations, shall not he correct, [Even] he that teacheth man knowledge?
• Ps 147:5 : 5 Great is our Lord, and mighty in power; His understanding is infinite.