Proverbs 12:18

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

There is that speaketh rashly like the piercings of a sword; But the tongue of the wise is health.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יֵ֣שׁ בּ֖‪[d]‬וֹטֶה כְּמַדְקְר֣וֹת חָ֑רֶב וּלְשׁ֖וֹן חֲכָמִ֣ים מַרְפֵּֽא׃

Transliteration

yēš bôṭeh kəmaḏqərôṯ ḥāreḇ ûləšôn ḥăḵāmîm marpēʾ

Grammar Details

• *yēš*: particle of existence - there is
• *bôṭeh*: verb, qal participle, masculine singular - babbling/speaking rashly
• *kəmaḏqərôṯ*: preposition + noun, feminine plural construct - like piercings of
• *ḥāreḇ*: noun, feminine singular - sword
• *ûləšôn*: conjunction + noun, feminine singular construct - and tongue of
• *ḥăḵāmîm*: adjective, masculine plural - wise ones
• *marpēʾ*: noun, masculine singular - healing

Word Meanings

• *bôṭeh*: babbling/speaking rashly/chattering/thoughtless speech
• *maḏqərôṯ*: piercings/stabbings/thrusts
• *ḥereḇ*: sword/knife
• *lāšôn*: tongue/speech/language
• *ḥăḵāmîm*: wise ones/wise people
• *marpēʾ*: healing/health/remedy

Referenced Verses

• Ps 57:4 : 4 My soul is among lions; I lie among them that are set on fire, Even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, And their tongue a sharp sword.
• Prov 16:24 : 24 Pleasant words are [as] a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
• Prov 13:17 : 17 A wicked messenger falleth into evil; But a faithful ambassador is health.
• Prov 15:4 : 4 A gentle tongue is a tree of life; But perverseness therein is a breaking of the spirit.
• Prov 15:7 : 7 The lips of the wise disperse knowledge; But the heart of the foolish [doeth] not so.
• Ps 59:7 : 7 Behold, they belch out with their mouth; Swords are in their lips: For who, [say they], doth hear?
• Prov 4:22 : 22 For they are life unto those that find them, And health to all their flesh.
• Jas 3:6-8 : 6 And the tongue is a fire: the world of iniquity among our members {G3779} is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheel of nature, and is set on fire by hell. 7 For every kind of beasts and birds, {G5037} of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed by mankind. 8 But the tongue can no man tame; [it is] a restless evil, [it is] full of deadly poison.
• Rev 1:16 : 16 And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth proceeded a sharp two-edged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.
• Rev 22:2 : 2 in the midst of the street thereof. And on this side of the river and on that was the tree of life, bearing twelve [manner of] fruits, yielding its fruit {G1520} {G1538} every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
• Prov 10:20-21 : 20 The tongue of the righteous is [as] choice silver: The heart of the wicked is little worth. 21 The lips of the righteous feed many; But the foolish die for lack of understanding.
• Ps 64:3 : 3 Who have whet their tongue like a sword, And have aimed their arrows, even bitter words,
• Prov 25:18 : 18 A man that beareth false witness against his neighbor Is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.
• Dan 11:33 : 33 And they that are wise among the people shall instruct many; yet they shall fall by the sword and by flame, by captivity and by spoil, [many] days.
• Ps 52:2 : 2 Thy tongue deviseth very wickedness, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.