Proverbs 18:23

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

The poor useth entreaties; But the rich answereth roughly.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

תַּחֲנוּנִ֥ים יְדַבֶּר־רָ֑שׁ וְ֝עָשִׁ֗יר יַעֲנֶ֥ה עַזּֽוֹת׃

Transliteration

taḥănûnîm yəḏabber-rāš and-ʿāšîr yaʿăneh ʿazzôṯ

Grammar Details

• *taḥănûnîm*: noun, masculine plural - supplications/pleas/entreaties
• *yəḏabber*: verb, piel imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - speaks
• *rāš*: noun, masculine singular - poor person/pauper
• *ʿāšîr*: noun/adjective, masculine singular - rich person/wealthy
• *yaʿăneh*: verb, qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - answers/responds
• *ʿazzôṯ*: adjective, feminine plural - harsh things/fierce things

Word Meanings

• *taḥănûnîm*: supplications/pleas/entreaties/appeals
• *yəḏabber*: speaks/says/utters
• *rāš*: poor person/pauper/needy one
• *ʿāšîr*: rich person/wealthy person
• *yaʿăneh*: answers/responds/replies
• *ʿazzôṯ*: harsh things/fierce things/rudely/roughly

Referenced Verses

• Jas 2:3 : 3 and ye have regard to him that weareth the fine clothing, and say, {G846} Sit thou here in a good place; and ye say to the poor man, Stand thou there, or sit {G5602} under my footstool;
• Jas 2:6 : 6 But ye have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you, and themselves drag you before the judgment-seats?
• Gen 42:7 : 7 And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly with them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.
• Gen 42:30 : 30 The man, the lord of the land, spake roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country.
• Exod 5:2 : 2 And Pharaoh said, Who is Jehovah, that I should hearken unto his voice to let Israel go? I know not Jehovah, and moreover I will not let Israel go.
• Ruth 2:7 : 7 And she said, Let me glean, I pray you, and gather after the reapers among the sheaves. So she came, and hath continued even from the morning until now, save that she tarried a little in the house.
• 1 Sam 2:36 : 36 And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left in thy house shall come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee, into one of the priests' offices, that I may eat a morsel of bread.
• 1 Sam 25:10 : 10 And Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who is David? and who is the son of Jesse? there are many servants now-a-days that break away every man from his master.
• 1 Sam 25:17 : 17 Now therefore know and consider what thou wilt do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his house: for he is such a worthless fellow, that one cannot speak to him.
• 2 Kgs 4:1-2 : 1 Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear Jehovah: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two children to be bondmen. 2 And Elisha said unto her, What shall I do for thee? tell me; what hast thou in the house? And she said, Thy handmaid hath not anything in the house, save a pot of oil.
• Isa 66:2 : 2 For all these things hath my hand made, and [so] all these things came to be, saith Jehovah: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and that trembleth at my word.
• Matt 5:3 : 3 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
• Jas 1:9-9 : 9 But let the brother of low degree glory in his high estate: 10 and the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. 11 For the sun ariseth with the scorching wind, and withereth the grass: and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his goings.