Proverbs 25:27

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

It is not good to eat much honey: So [for men] to search out their own glory is grievous.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אָ֘כֹ֤ל דְּבַ֣שׁ הַרְבּ֣וֹת לֹּא־ט֑וֹב וְחֵ֖קֶר כְּבֹדָ֣ם כָּבֽוֹד׃

Transliteration

ʾākōl dĕbaš harbôt lōʾ-ṭôb and-ḥēqer kĕbōdām kābôd

Grammar Details

*ʾākōl*: qal infinitive absolute - eating
*dĕbaš*: noun, masculine singular - honey
*harbôt*: hiphil infinitive construct - to multiply/make much
*lōʾ*: negative particle - not
*ṭôb*: adjective, masculine singular - good
*wĕ*: conjunction - and
*ḥēqer*: noun, masculine singular construct - searching out of
*kĕbōdām*: noun, masculine singular + 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their glory
*kābôd*: noun, masculine singular - glory/honor

Word Meanings

*ʾākōl*: eating/consuming
*dĕbaš*: honey/sweet substance
*harbôt*: to multiply/make much/increase
*ṭôb*: good/beneficial/appropriate
*ḥēqer*: searching out/investigation/inquiry
*kĕbōdām*: their glory/their honor/their own glory
*kābôd*: glory/honor/heaviness

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Prov 27:2 : 2 Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; A stranger, and not thine own lips.
John 5:44 : 44 How can ye believe, who receive glory one of another, and the glory that [cometh] from the only God ye seek not?
2 Cor 12:1 : 1 I must needs glory, though it is not expedient; but I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
2 Cor 12:11 : 11 I am become foolish: {G2744} ye compelled me; for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles, though {G2532} I am nothing.
Phil 2:3 : 3 [ doing] nothing through faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness of mind {G2233} each counting other better than himself;
Prov 25:16 : 16 Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, Lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.

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