Proverbs 25:16

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, Lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

דְּבַ֣שׁ מָ֭צָאתָ אֱכֹ֣ל דַּיֶּ֑ךָּ פֶּן־תִּ֝שְׂבָּעֶ֗נּוּ וַהֲקֵֽאתֽוֹ׃

Transliteration

dĕbaš māṣāʾtā ʾĕkōl dayyekkā lest-tiśbāʿennû and-hăqēʾōtô

Grammar Details

*dĕbaš*: noun, masculine singular - honey
*māṣāʾtā*: qal perfect, 2nd person masculine singular - you have found
*ʾĕkōl*: qal imperative, masculine singular - eat
*dayyekkā*: noun, masculine singular + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your sufficiency
*pen*: conjunction - lest
*tiśbāʿennû*: qal imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - you will be filled with it
*wa*: conjunction - and
*hăqēʾōtô*: hiphil perfect, 2nd person masculine singular + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - you will vomit it

Word Meanings

*dĕbaš*: honey/sweet substance
*māṣāʾtā*: you have found/you discovered
*ʾĕkōl*: eat/consume
*dayyekkā*: your sufficiency/your fill/enough for you
*tiśbāʿennû*: you will be filled with it/you will be satiated with it
*hăqēʾōtô*: you will vomit it/you will spew it out

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Referenced Verses

Prov 25:27 : 27 It is not good to eat much honey: So [for men] to search out their own glory is grievous.
Isa 7:15 : 15 Butter and honey shall he eat, when he knoweth to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
Isa 7:22 : 22 and it shall come to pass, that because of the abundance of milk which they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the midst of the land.
Luke 21:34 : 34 But take heed to yourselves, lest haply your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day come on you suddenly as a snare:
Eph 5:18 : 18 And be not drunken with wine, wherein is riot, but be filled with the Spirit;
Judg 14:8-9 : 8 And after a while he returned to take her; and he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey. 9 And he took it into his hands, and went on, eating as he went; and he came to his father and mother, and gave unto them, and they did eat: but he told them not that he had taken the honey out of the body of the lion.
1 Sam 14:25-27 : 25 And all the people came into the forest; and there was honey upon the ground. 26 And when the people were come unto the forest, behold, the honey dropped: but no man put his hand to his mouth; for the people feared the oath. 27 But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped it in the honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened.
Prov 23:8 : 8 The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, And lose thy sweet words.
Prov 24:13-14 : 13 My son, eat thou honey, for it is good; And the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to thy taste: 14 So shalt thou know wisdom to be unto thy soul; If thou hast found it, then shall there be a reward, And thy hope shall not be cut off.

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