Proverbs 19:22

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

That which maketh a man to be desired is his kindness; And a poor man is better than a liar.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

תַּאֲוַ֣ת אָדָ֣ם חַסְדּ֑וֹ וְטֽוֹב־רָ֝שׁ מֵאִ֥ישׁ כָּזָֽב׃

Transliteration

taʾăwat ʾādām ḥasdō and better rāš than ʾîš kāzāb.

Grammar Details

• *taʾăwat*: noun, feminine singular construct - desire of
• *ʾādām*: noun, masculine singular - man/mankind
• *ḥasdō*: noun, masculine singular construct with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his loyalty/kindness
• *rāš*: adjective, masculine singular - poor
• *ʾîš*: noun, masculine singular - man/person
• *kāzāb*: adjective, masculine singular - lying/deceitful

Word Meanings

• *taʾăwat*: desire of/longing of/craving of
• *ʾādām*: man/mankind/person
• *ḥasdō*: his loyalty/kindness/steadfast love
• *rāš*: poor person/poverty
• *ʾîš*: man/person/individual
• *kāzāb*: lying/deceitful/false

Referenced Verses

• Mark 14:6-8 : 6 But Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me. 7 For ye have the poor always with you, and whensoever ye will ye can do them good: but me ye have not always. 8 She hath done what she could; she hath anointed my body beforehand for the burying.
• 2 Cor 8:2-3 : 2 how that in much proof of affliction the abundance of their joy and {G2596} their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality. 3 For according to their power, I bear witness, yea and beyond their power, [they gave] of their own accord,
• 2 Cor 8:12 : 12 For if the readiness is there, [it is] acceptable according as [a man] hath, not according as [he] hath not.
• Titus 1:2 : 2 in hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before times eternal;
• 1 Chr 29:2-3 : 2 Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for the [things of] gold, and the silver for the [things of] silver, and the brass for the [things of] brass, the iron for the [things of] iron, and wood for the [things of] wood; onyx stones, and [stones] to be set, stones for inlaid work, and of divers colors, and all manner of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance. 3 Moreover also, because I have set my affection on the house of my God, seeing that I have a treasure of mine own of gold and silver, I give it unto the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house,
• 1 Chr 29:17 : 17 I know also, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy thy people, that are present here, offer willingly unto thee.
• 2 Chr 6:8 : 8 But Jehovah said unto David my father, Whereas it was in thy heart to build a house for my name, thou didst well that it was in thy heart:
• Job 6:15 : 15 My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, As the channel of brooks that pass away;
• Job 17:5 : 5 He that denounceth his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail.
• Ps 62:9 : 9 Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: In the balances they will go up; They are together lighter than vanity.
• Prov 19:1 : 1 Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity Than he that is perverse in his lips and is a fool.
• Mark 12:41-44 : 41 And he sat down over against the treasury, and beheld how the multitude cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much. 42 And there came a poor widow, and she cast in two mites, which make a farthing. 43 And he called unto him his disciples, and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, {G3754} This poor widow cast in more than all they that are casting into the treasury: 44 for they all did cast in of their superfluity; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, [even] all her living.