Proverbs 29:24

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul; He heareth the adjuration and uttereth nothing.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

חוֹלֵ֣ק עִם־גַּ֭נָּב שׂוֹנֵ֣א נַּפְשׁ֑וֹ אָלָ֥ה יִ֝שְׁמַ֗ע וְלֹ֣א יַגִּֽיד׃

Transliteration

ḥôlēq ʿim-gannāḇ śônēʾ napšô ʾālāh yišmaʿ wə-lōʾ yaggîd

Grammar Details

• *ḥôlēq*: qal participle, masculine singular - dividing/sharing
• *ʿim*: preposition - with
• *gannāḇ*: noun, masculine singular - thief
• *śônēʾ*: qal participle, masculine singular - hating
• *napšô*: noun, feminine singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - his soul/himself
• *ʾālāh*: noun, feminine singular - oath/curse
• *yišmaʿ*: qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - hears
• *wə*: conjunction - and
• *lōʾ*: negative particle - not
• *yaggîd*: hiphil imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - tells/reports

Word Meanings

• *ḥôlēq ʿim-gannāḇ*: shares with thief/partner with thief
• *śônēʾ napšô*: hates his own soul/hates himself
• *ʾālāh yišmaʿ*: hears an oath/hears a curse/hears adjuration
• *wə-lōʾ yaggîd*: and does not tell/yet does not report/but will not disclose

Referenced Verses

• Lev 5:1 : 1 And if any one sin, in that he heareth the voice of adjuration, he being a witness, whether he hath seen or known, if he do not utter [it], then he shall bear his iniquity.
• Prov 8:36 : 36 But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: All they that hate me love death.
• Prov 15:32 : 32 He that refuseth correction despiseth his own soul; But he that hearkeneth to reproof getteth understanding.
• Isa 1:23 : 23 Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves; every one loveth bribes, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
• Mark 11:17 : 17 And he taught, and said unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations? but ye have made it a den of robbers.
• Ps 50:18-22 : 18 When thou sawest a thief, thou consentedst with him, And hast been partaker with adulterers. 19 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, And thy tongue frameth deceit. 20 Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; Thou slanderest thine own mother's son. 21 These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thyself: [But] I will reprove thee, and set [them] in order before thine eyes. 22 Now consider this, ye that forget God, Lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver:
• Prov 1:11-19 : 11 If they say, Come with us, Let us lay wait for blood; Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause; 12 Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, And whole, as those that go down into the pit; 13 We shall find all precious substance; We shall fill our houses with spoil; 14 Thou shalt cast thy lot among us; We will all have one purse: 15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; Refrain thy foot from their path: 16 For their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed blood. 17 For in vain is the net spread In the sight of any bird: 18 And these lay wait for their own blood; They lurk privily for their own lives. 19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; It taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
• Prov 6:32 : 32 He that committeth adultery with a woman is void of understanding: He doeth it who would destroy his own soul.
• Judg 17:2 : 2 And he said unto his mother, The eleven hundred [pieces] of silver that were taken from thee, about which thou didst utter a curse, and didst also speak it in mine ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it. And his mother said, Blessed be my son of Jehovah.
• Prov 20:2 : 2 The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion: He that provoketh him to anger sinneth [against] his own life.