Proverbs 19:12

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; But his favor is as dew upon the grass.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

נַ֣הַם כַּ֭כְּפִיר זַ֣עַף מֶ֑לֶךְ וּכְטַ֖ל עַל־עֵ֣שֶׂב רְצוֹנֽוֹ׃

Transliteration

naham like kəpîr zaʿap meleḵ and like ṭal upon ʿēśeb rəṣōnō.

Grammar Details

• *naham*: noun, masculine singular - growling/roaring
• *kəpîr*: noun, masculine singular - young lion
• *zaʿap*: noun, masculine singular - rage/anger
• *meleḵ*: noun, masculine singular - king
• *ṭal*: noun, masculine singular - dew
• *ʿēśeb*: noun, masculine singular - grass/vegetation
• *rəṣōnō*: noun, masculine singular construct with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his favor/pleasure

Word Meanings

• *naham*: growling/roaring/rage
• *kəpîr*: young lion/lion
• *zaʿap*: rage/anger/wrath
• *meleḵ*: king/sovereign
• *ṭal*: dew/mist
• *ʿēśeb*: grass/vegetation/herb
• *rəṣōnō*: his favor/pleasure/goodwill

Referenced Verses

• Prov 16:14-15 : 14 The wrath of a king is [as] messengers of death; But a wise man will pacify it. 15 In the light of the king's countenance is life; And his favor is as a cloud of the latter rain.
• Hos 14:5 : 5 I will be as the dew unto Israel; he shall blossom as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.
• Ps 133:3 : 3 Like the dew of Hermon, That cometh down upon the mountains of Zion: For there Jehovah commanded the blessing, Even life for evermore.
• Prov 20:2 : 2 The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion: He that provoketh him to anger sinneth [against] his own life.
• Prov 28:15 : 15 [ As] a roaring lion, and a ranging bear, [So is] a wicked ruler over a poor people.
• Eccl 8:4 : 4 For the king's word [hath] power; and who may say unto him, What doest thou?
• Dan 2:12-13 : 12 For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon. 13 So the decree went forth, and the wise men were to be slain; and they sought Daniel and his companions to be slain.
• Dan 3:19-23 : 19 Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego: [therefore] he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace {H2298} seven times more than it was wont to be heated. 20 And he commanded certain mighty men that were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, [and] to cast them into the burning fiery furnace. 21 Then these men were bound in their hosen, their tunics, and their mantles, and their [other] garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace. 22 Therefore because the king's commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire slew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego. 23 And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.
• Dan 5:19 : 19 and because of the greatness that he gave him, all the peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew, and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he raised up, and whom he would he put down.
• Dan 6:24 : 24 And the king commanded, and they brought those men that had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces, before they came to the bottom of the den.
• Mic 5:7 : 7 And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many peoples as dew from Jehovah, as showers upon the grass, that tarry not for man, nor wait for the sons of men.
• Luke 12:4-5 : 4 And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. 5 But I will warn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, who after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.
• 2 Sam 23:4 : 4 [ He shall be] as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, A morning without clouds, [When] the tender grass [springeth] out of the earth, Through clear shining after rain.
• Esth 7:8 : 8 Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman was fallen upon the couch whereon Esther was. Then said the king, Will he even force the queen before me in the house? As the word went out of the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face.
• Ps 72:6 : 6 He will come down like rain upon the mown grass, As showers that water the earth.