Proverbs 24:15

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous; Destroy not his resting-place:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אַל־תֶּאֱרֹ֣ב רָ֭שָׁע לִנְוֵ֣ה צַדִּ֑יק אַֽל־תְּשַׁדֵּ֥ד רִבְצוֹ׃

Transliteration

Not-teʾěrōb rāšāʿ to-nəwêh ṣaddîq not-təšaddēd ribṣô

Grammar Details

• *teʾěrōb*: Qal imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular - lie in wait
• *rāšāʿ*: masculine singular adjective - wicked
• *nəwêh*: masculine singular construct - dwelling of
• *ṣaddîq*: masculine singular adjective - righteous
• *təšaddēd*: Piel imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular - destroy/devastate
• *ribṣô*: masculine singular noun with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his resting place

Word Meanings

• *teʾěrōb*: lie in wait/ambush/set a trap
• *nəwêh*: dwelling/habitation/pasture
• *təšaddēd*: destroy/devastate/ruin
• *ribṣô*: his resting place/his dwelling/his lair

Referenced Verses

• 1 Sam 9:11 : 11 As they went up the ascent to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said unto them, Is the seer here?
• 1 Sam 22:18-19 : 18 And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and he slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod. 19 And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen and asses and sheep, with the edge of the sword.
• 1 Sam 23:20-23 : 20 Now therefore, O king, come down, according to all the desire of thy soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver him up into the king's hand. 21 And Saul said, Blessed be ye of Jehovah; for ye have had compassion on me. 22 Go, I pray you, make yet more sure, and know and see his place where his haunt is, [and] who hath seen him there; for it is told me that he dealeth very subtly. 23 See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking-places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me of a certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.
• Ps 10:8-9 : 8 He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages; In the secret places doth he murder the innocent; His eyes are privily set against the helpless. 9 He lurketh in secret as a lion in his covert; He lieth in wait to catch the poor: He doth catch the poor, when he draweth him in his net. 10 He croucheth, he boweth down, And the helpless fall by his strong ones.
• Ps 37:32 : 32 The wicked watcheth the righteous, And seeketh to slay him.
• Ps 56:6 : 6 They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, They mark my steps, Even as they have waited for my soul.
• Ps 59:3 : 3 For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul; The mighty gather themselves together against me: Not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O Jehovah.
• Ps 140:5 : 5 The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; They have spread a net by the wayside; They have set gins for me. {H5542}
• Prov 1:11 : 11 If they say, Come with us, Let us lay wait for blood; Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause;
• Prov 22:28 : 28 Remove not the ancient landmark, Which thy fathers have set.
• Isa 32:18 : 18 And my people shall abide in a peaceable habitation, and in safe dwellings, and in quiet resting-places.
• Jer 11:19 : 19 But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, [saying], Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
• Matt 26:4 : 4 and they took counsel together that they might take Jesus by subtlety, and kill him.
• Acts 9:24 : 24 but their plot became known to Saul. And they watched the gates also day and night that they might kill him:
• Acts 23:16 : 16 But Paul's sister's son heard of their lying in wait, and he came and entered into the castle and told Paul.
• Acts 25:3 : 3 asking a favor against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem; laying a plot to kill him on the way.