Proverbs 16:7

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

When a man's ways please Jehovah, He maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בִּרְצ֣וֹת יְ֭הוָה דַּרְכֵי־אִ֑ישׁ גַּם־א֝וֹיְבָ֗יו יַשְׁלִ֥ם אִתּֽוֹ׃

Transliteration

When-rᵉṣôt YHWH darkê-ʾîš also-ʾôyᵉḇāyw yašlīm with-him

Grammar Details

• *bᵉ*: preposition - in/when
• *rᵉṣôt*: verb, Qal infinitive construct - pleasing/accepting/being favorable
• *YHWH*: divine name
• *darkê*: noun, feminine, plural construct - ways of
• *ʾîš*: noun, masculine, singular - man/person
• *gam*: particle - also/even
• *ʾôyᵉḇāyw*: noun, masculine, plural with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his enemies
• *yašlīm*: verb, Hiphil imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - he will make peace
• *ʾittô*: preposition with 3rd masculine singular suffix - with him

Word Meanings

• *rᵉṣôt*: when pleasing/when accepting/when favorable to
• *yašlīm*: he will make peace/he will reconcile/he will cause to be at peace

Referenced Verses

• Gen 33:4 : 4 And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept.
• 2 Chr 17:10 : 10 And the fear of Jehovah fell upon all the kingdoms of the lands that were round about Judah, so that they made no war against Jehoshaphat.
• Jer 15:11 : 11 Jehovah said, Verily I will strengthen thee for good; verily I will cause the enemy to make supplication unto thee in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.
• 1 John 3:22 : 22 and whatsoever {G1437} we ask we receive of him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.
• Heb 13:21 : 21 make you perfect in every good thing to do his will, working in us that which is well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom [be] the glory for ever and ever. Amen.
• Rom 8:31 : 31 What then shall we say to these things? If God [is] for us, who [is] against us?
• Phil 4:18 : 18 But I have all things, and abound: I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, an odor of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God.
• Col 1:10 : 10 {G4043} {G5209} to walk worthily of the Lord unto all pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
• Col 3:20 : 20 Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in the Lord.
• Ps 69:31 : 31 And it will please Jehovah better than an ox, [Or] a bullock that hath horns and hoofs.
• Gen 27:41 : 41 And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.
• Gen 32:6-7 : 6 And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and moreover he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him. 7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed: and he divided the people that were with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies;
• Gen 32:28 : 28 And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for thou hast striven with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
• Acts 9:1-2 : 1 But Saul, yet breathing threatening and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, 2 and asked of him letters to Damascus unto the synagogues, that if he found any that were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.
• Acts 9:19-20 : 19 and he took food and was strengthened. And he was certain days with the disciples that were at Damascus. 20 And straightway in the synagogues he proclaimed Jesus, that he is the Son of God.