2 Samuel 22:27

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure; And with the perverse thou wilt show thyself froward.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

עִם־נָבָ֖ר תִּתָּבָ֑ר וְעִם־עִקֵּ֖שׁ תִּתַּפָּֽל׃

Transliteration

With-nābār tittābār; and with-ʿiqqēš tittappāl.

Grammar Details

• *nābār*: Niphal participle ms - pure
• *tittābār*: Hithpael imperfect 2ms - you show yourself pure
• *ʿiqqēš*: masculine adjective - crooked
• *tittappāl*: Hithpael imperfect 2ms - you show yourself shrewd

Word Meanings

• *nābār*: pure, clean, clear
• *tittābār*: show yourself pure, act purely
• *ʿiqqēš*: crooked, perverse, twisted
• *tittappāl*: show yourself shrewd/astute/twisted

Referenced Verses

• Matt 5:8 : 8 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
• Exod 18:11 : 11 Now I know that Jehovah is greater than all gods; yea, in the thing wherein they dealt proudly against them.
• Lev 26:23-28 : 23 And if by these things ye will not be reformed unto me, but will walk contrary unto me; 24 then will I also walk contrary unto you; and I will smite you, even I, seven times for your sins. 25 And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall execute the vengeance of the covenant; and ye shall be gathered together within your cities: and I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy. 26 When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied. 27 And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me; 28 then I will walk contrary unto you in wrath; and I also will chastise you seven times for your sins.
• Deut 28:58-61 : 58 If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, JEHOVAH THY GOD; 59 then Jehovah will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance. 60 And he will bring upon thee again all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee. 61 Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will Jehovah bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
• Ps 18:26 : 26 With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure; And with the perverse thou wilt show thyself froward.
• Ps 125:5 : 5 But as for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, Jehovah will lead them forth with the workers of iniquity. Peace be upon Israel.
• Isa 45:9 : 9 Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! a potsherd among the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?