Proverbs 21:6

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue Is a vapor driven to and fro by them that seek death.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

פֹּ֣עַל א֭וֹצָרוֹת בִּלְשׁ֣וֹן שָׁ֑קֶר הֶ֥בֶל נִ֝דָּ֗ף מְבַקְשֵׁי־מָֽוֶת

Transliteration

pōʿal ʾôṣārôt with-lĕšôn šāqer heḇel niddāp̄ mĕḇaqšê-māwet

Grammar Details

• *pōʿal*: construct singular noun - acquisition/making of
• *ʾôṣārôt*: masculine plural noun - treasures
• *lĕšôn*: construct singular noun - tongue of
• *šāqer*: masculine singular noun - falsehood/lie
• *heḇel*: masculine singular noun - vapor/vanity
• *niddāp̄*: niphal participle masculine singular - being driven/blown away
• *mĕḇaqšê*: piel participle masculine plural construct - seekers of
• *māwet*: masculine singular noun - death

Word Meanings

• *pōʿal*: acquisition/work/deed
• *ʾôṣārôt*: treasures/storehouses/wealth
• *lĕšôn*: tongue/language/speech
• *šāqer*: falsehood/lie/deception
• *heḇel*: vapor/breath/vanity/emptiness
• *niddāp̄*: driven away/blown away/dispersed
• *mĕḇaqšê*: seekers/pursuers/those who seek

Referenced Verses

• Prov 13:11 : 11 Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished; But he that gathereth by labor shall have increase.
• Prov 20:21 : 21 An inheritance [may be] gotten hastily at the beginning; But the end thereof shall not be blessed.
• Prov 8:36 : 36 But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: All they that hate me love death.
• Prov 10:2 : 2 Treasures of wickedness profit nothing; But righteousness delivereth from death.
• 2 Pet 2:3 : 3 And in covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose sentence now from of old lingereth not, and their destruction slumbereth not.
• Prov 20:14 : 14 It is bad, it is bad, saith the buyer; But when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.
• Prov 22:8 : 8 He that soweth iniquity shall reap calamity; And the rod of his wrath shall fail.
• Prov 30:8 : 8 Remove far from me falsehood and lies; Give me neither poverty nor riches; Feed me with the food that is needful for me:
• Jer 17:11 : 11 As the partridge that sitteth on [eggs] which she hath not laid, so is he that getteth riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.
• Ezek 18:31 : 31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, wherein ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
• 1 Tim 6:9-9 : 9 But they that are minded to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and hurtful lusts, such as drown men in destruction and perdition. 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil: which {G3713} some reaching after have been led astray from the faith, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
• Titus 1:11 : 11 whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.