Proverbs 20:13

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Love not sleep, let thou come to poverty; Open thine eyes, [and] thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אַל־תֶּֽאֱהַ֣ב שֵׁ֭נָה פֶּן־תִּוָּרֵ֑שׁ פְּקַ֖ח עֵינֶ֣יךָ שְֽׂבַֽע־לָֽחֶם׃

Transliteration

Not-teʾĕhab šēnâ lest-tiōrēš pəqaḥ ʿênêkā śəbaʿ-lāḥem

Grammar Details

*teʾĕhab*: verb, Qal imperfect 2nd masculine singular - love
*šēnâ*: noun, feminine singular - sleep
*tiōrēš*: verb, Niphal imperfect 2nd masculine singular - become poor
*pəqaḥ*: verb, Qal imperative masculine singular - open
*ʿênêkā*: noun, feminine dual with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your eyes
*śəbaʿ*: verb, Qal imperative masculine singular - be satisfied with
*lāḥem*: noun, masculine singular - bread/food

Word Meanings

*teʾĕhab*: love/be fond of/cherish
*šēnâ*: sleep/slumber
*tiōrēš*: become poor/impoverished/destitute
*pəqaḥ*: open/uncover
*ʿênêkā*: your eyes/sight
*śəbaʿ*: be satisfied with/have enough of
*lāḥem*: bread/food/sustenance

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Prov 19:15 : 15 Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; And the idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Prov 6:9-9 : 9 How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? 10 [ Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep: 11 So shall thy poverty come as a robber, And thy want as an armed man.
Prov 12:11 : 11 He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread; But he that followeth after vain [persons] is void of understanding.
Rom 12:11 : 11 in diligence not slothful; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
Rom 13:11 : 11 And this, knowing the season, that already it is time for you to awake out of sleep: for now is {G2257} salvation nearer to us than when we [first] believed.
1 Cor 15:34 : 34 Awake to soberness righteously, and sin not; for some have no knowledge of God: I speak [this] to move you to shame.
Eph 5:14 : 14 Wherefore [he] saith, Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine upon thee.
2 Thess 3:10 : 10 For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, {G3754} If any will not work, neither let him eat.
Prov 13:4 : 4 The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing; But the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
Prov 10:4 : 4 He becometh poor that worketh with a slack hand; But the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
Prov 24:30-34 : 30 I went by the field of the sluggard, And by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; 31 And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, The face thereof was covered with nettles, And the stone wall thereof was broken down. 32 Then I beheld, and considered well; I saw, and received instruction: 33 [ Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep; 34 So shall thy poverty come as a robber, And thy want as an armed man.
Jonah 1:6 : 6 So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.

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9How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
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Prov 28:22
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Prov 23:4-6
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Prov 13:4
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4The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing; But the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
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Eccl 10:18
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Prov 21:25
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Deut 24:12
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Prov 22:16
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