Proverbs 15:25

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Jehovah will root up the house of the proud; But he will establish the border of the widow.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בֵּ֣ית גֵּ֭אִים יִסַּ֥ח ׀ יְהוָ֑ה וְ֝יַצֵּ֗ב גְּב֣וּל אַלְמָנָֽה׃

Transliteration

Bêt gēʾîm yissaḥ YHWH wəyaṣṣēḇ gəḇûl ʾalmānāh

Grammar Details

• *Bêt*: noun, masculine singular construct - house of
• *gēʾîm*: adjective, masculine plural - proud/arrogant ones
• *yissaḥ*: qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - tears down/uproots
• YHWH: proper noun - divine name
• *wəyaṣṣēḇ*: conjunction + hiphil imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - but establishes/sets up
• *gəḇûl*: noun, masculine singular construct - boundary of
• *ʾalmānāh*: noun, feminine singular - widow

Word Meanings

• *Bêt gēʾîm*: house of proud/dwelling of arrogant
• *yissaḥ*: tears down/uproots/destroys
• *wəyaṣṣēḇ gəḇûl*: but establishes boundary/yet secures property
• *ʾalmānāh*: widow/bereaved woman

Referenced Verses

• Ps 146:9 : 9 Jehovah preserveth the sojourners; He upholdeth the fatherless and widow; But the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
• Prov 23:10 : 10 Remove not the ancient landmark; And enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
• Prov 12:7 : 7 The wicked are overthrown, and are not; But the house of the righteous shall stand.
• Prov 14:11 : 11 The house of the wicked shall be overthrown; But the tent of the upright shall flourish.
• Ps 68:5-6 : 5 A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, Is God in his holy habitation. 6 God setteth the solitary in families: He bringeth out the prisoners into prosperity; But the rebellious dwell in a parched land.
• Deut 10:17-18 : 17 For Jehovah your God, he is God of gods, and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the terrible, who regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward. 18 He doth execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loveth the sojourner, in giving him food and raiment.
• Jas 1:27 : 27 Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
• 1 Pet 5:5 : 5 Likewise, ye younger, be subject unto the elder. Yea, all of you gird yourselves with humility, to serve one another: for God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.
• Isa 2:12 : 12 For there shall be a day of Jehovah of hosts upon all that is proud and haughty, and upon all that is lifted up; and it shall be brought low;
• Dan 5:20 : 20 But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:
• Ps 52:5 : 5 God will likewise destroy thee for ever; He will take thee up, and pluck thee out of thy tent, And root thee out of the land of the living. {H5542}
• Deut 19:14 : 14 Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark, which they of old time have set, in thine inheritance which thou shalt inherit, in the land that Jehovah thy God giveth thee to possess it.
• Job 40:11-13 : 11 Pour forth the overflowings of thine anger; And look upon every one that is proud, and abase him. 12 Look on every one that is proud, [and] bring him low; And tread down the wicked where they stand. 13 Hide them in the dust together; Bind their faces in the hidden [place].
• Ps 138:6 : 6 For though Jehovah is high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly; But the haughty he knoweth from afar.
• Ps 52:1 : 1 For the Chief Musician. Maschil of David; when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David is come to the house of Ahimelech. Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? The lovingkindness of God [endureth] continually.