Proverbs 16:4

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Jehovah hath made everything for its own end; Yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כֹּ֤ל פָּעַ֣ל יְ֭הוָה לַֽמַּעֲנֵ֑הוּ וְגַם־רָ֝שָׁ֗ע לְי֣וֹם רָעָֽה׃

Transliteration

All pāʿal YHWH for-maʿănēhû and also-rāšāʿ for-yôm rāʿāh

Grammar Details

*kōl*: noun, masculine, singular - all/everything
*pāʿal*: verb, Qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - he made/worked/accomplished
*YHWH*: divine name
*lᵉ*: preposition - for/to
*maʿănēhû*: noun, masculine, singular with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his purpose/answer/response
*wᵉ*: conjunction - and
*gam*: particle - also/even
*rāšāʿ*: adjective, masculine, singular - wicked person/evil one
*yôm*: noun, masculine, singular - day
*rāʿāh*: noun, feminine, singular - evil/disaster/calamity

Word Meanings

*maʿănēhû*: his purpose/his own ends/his response
*rāʿāh*: evil/disaster/calamity/trouble

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Referenced Verses

Rom 9:22 : 22 What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering vessels of wrath fitted unto destruction:
1 Pet 2:8 : 8 and, A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence; for they stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.
Isa 43:21 : 21 the people which I formed for myself, that they might set forth my praise.
Isa 43:7 : 7 every one that is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yea, whom I have made.
Rom 11:36 : 36 For of him, and through him, and unto him, are all things. To him [be] the glory for ever. Amen.
2 Pet 2:9 : 9 the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment unto the day of judgment;
Rev 4:11 : 11 Worthy art thou, our Lord and our God, to receive the glory and the honor and the power: for thou didst create all things, and because of thy will they were, and were created.
2 Pet 2:3 : 3 And in covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose sentence now from of old lingereth not, and their destruction slumbereth not.
Job 21:30 : 30 That the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity? That they are led forth to the day of wrath?

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