Proverbs 24:31

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, The face thereof was covered with nettles, And the stone wall thereof was broken down.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהִנֵּ֨ה עָ֘לָ֤ה כֻלּ֨וֹ ׀ קִמְּשֹׂנִ֗ים כָּסּ֣וּ פָנָ֣יו חֲרֻלִּ֑ים וְגֶ֖דֶר אֲבָנָ֣יו נֶהֱרָֽסָה׃

Transliteration

And-behold ʿālāh all-of-it qimmǝśōnîm kāssû pānāyw ḥărullîm and-geder ʾăbānāyw neʿěrāsāh

Grammar Details

*ʿālāh*: Qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - grew up
*qimmǝśōnîm*: masculine plural noun - thorns/thistles
*kāssû*: Piel perfect, 3rd person common plural - covered
*pānāyw*: masculine plural noun with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - its surface
*ḥărullîm*: masculine plural noun - nettles
*geder*: masculine singular noun - wall
*ʾăbānāyw*: feminine plural noun with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - its stones
*neʿěrāsāh*: Niphal perfect, 3rd person feminine singular - was broken down

Word Meanings

*qimmǝśōnîm*: thorns/thistles/weeds
*ḥărullîm*: nettles/weeds
*geder*: wall/fence/hedge
*neʿěrāsāh*: was broken down/was demolished/was thrown down

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Referenced Verses

Gen 3:17-19 : 17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; 18 thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; 19 in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Job 31:40 : 40 Let thistles grow instead of wheat, And cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
Prov 19:23 : 23 The fear of Jehovah [tendeth] to life; And he [that hath it] shall abide satisfied; He shall not be visited with evil.
Prov 20:4 : 4 The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; Therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.
Prov 22:13 : 13 The sluggard saith, There is a lion without: I shall be slain in the streets.
Prov 23:21 : 21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; And drowsiness will clothe [a man] with rags.
Eccl 10:18 : 18 By slothfulness the roof sinketh in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaketh.
Isa 5:5 : 5 And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; I will break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
Jer 4:3 : 3 For thus saith Jehovah to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.
Matt 13:7 : 7 And others fell upon the thorns; and the thorns grew up and choked them:
Matt 13:22 : 22 And he that was sown among the thorns, this is he that heareth the word; and the care of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.
Heb 6:8 : 8 but if it beareth thorns and thistles, it is rejected and nigh unto a curse; whose end is to be burned.

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