Proverbs 21:24

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

The proud and haughty man, scoffer is his name; He worketh in the arrogance of pride.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

זֵ֣ד יָ֭הִיר לֵ֣ץ שְׁמ֑וֹ ע֝וֹשֶׂ֗ה בְּעֶבְרַ֥ת זָדֽוֹן

Transliteration

zēd yāhîr lēṣ šĕmô ʿôśeh in-ʿeḇrat zādôn

Grammar Details

• *zēd*: masculine singular adjective - proud/presumptuous
• *yāhîr*: masculine singular adjective - arrogant/haughty
• *lēṣ*: masculine singular noun - scoffer
• *šĕmô*: masculine singular noun + 3rd masculine singular suffix - his name
• *ʿôśeh*: qal participle masculine singular - acting/doing
• *ʿeḇrat*: construct feminine singular noun - overflow/wrath of
• *zādôn*: masculine singular noun - pride/arrogance

Word Meanings

• *zēd*: proud/presumptuous/insolent
• *yāhîr*: arrogant/haughty
• *lēṣ*: scoffer/mocker/scorner
• *ʿôśeh*: acting/doing/working
• *ʿeḇrat*: overflow/wrath/fury
• *zādôn*: pride/arrogance/insolence

Referenced Verses

• Ps 1:1 : 1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the wicked, Nor standeth in the way of sinners, Nor sitteth in the seat of scoffers:
• Prov 1:22 : 22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And scoffers delight them in scoffing, And fools hate knowledge?
• Prov 6:17 : 17 Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, And hands that shed innocent blood;
• Prov 16:18 : 18 Pride [goeth] before destruction, And a haughty spirit before a fall.
• Prov 18:12 : 12 Before destruction the heart of man is haughty; And before honor [goeth] humility.
• Prov 19:29 : 29 Judgments are prepared for scoffers, And stripes for the back of fools.
• Eccl 7:8-9 : 8 Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof; [and] the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit. 9 Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry; for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
• Isa 16:6 : 6 We have heard of the pride of Moab, [that] he is very proud; even of his arrogancy, and his pride, and his wrath; his boastings are nought.
• Jer 48:29 : 29 We have heard of the pride of Moab, [that] he is very proud; his loftiness, and his pride, and his arrogancy, and the haughtiness of his heart.
• Matt 2:16 : 16 Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the Wise-men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the male children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the borders thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had exactly learned of the Wise-men.
• Esth 3:5-6 : 5 And when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not down, nor did him reverence, then was Haman full of wrath. 6 But he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had made known to him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai.