Proverbs 30:3

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And I have not learned wisdom, Neither have I the knowledge of the Holy One.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְלֹֽא־לָמַ֥דְתִּי חָכְמָ֑ה וְדַ֖עַת קְדֹשִׁ֣ים אֵדָֽע׃

Transliteration

welōʾ-lāmadtî ḥokmâ wedaʿat qedōšîm ʾēdāʿ

Grammar Details

• *welōʾ*: conjunction + negative particle - and not
• *lāmadtî*: qal perfect, first person singular - I have learned
• *ḥokmâ*: feminine singular noun - wisdom
• *wedaʿat*: conjunction + construct state, feminine singular - and knowledge of
• *qedōšîm*: masculine plural adjective/noun - holy ones/holy things
• *ʾēdāʿ*: qal imperfect, first person singular - I know/will know

Word Meanings

• *qedōšîm*: holy ones/holy things/the Holy One (plural of majesty)/sacred matters

Referenced Verses

• Prov 9:10 : 10 The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of wisdom; And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
• Isa 6:3 : 3 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is Jehovah of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.
• Isa 6:10 : 10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed.
• Isa 30:11 : 11 get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
• Isa 57:15 : 15 For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
• Amos 7:14-15 : 14 Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was a herdsman, and a dresser of sycomore-trees: 15 and Jehovah took me from following the flock, and Jehovah said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel.
• Matt 11:27 : 27 All things have been delivered unto me of my Father: and no one knows the Son, save the Father; neither does any know the Father, save the Son, and he to whomever the Son willeth to reveal him.
• Matt 16:17 : 17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jonah: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father who is in heaven.
• John 17:3 : 3 And this is life eternal, that they should know thee the only true God, and him whom thou didst send, [even] Jesus Christ.
• Rom 11:33 : 33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!
• Eph 3:18-19 : 18 may be strong to apprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19 and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge, that ye may be filled unto all the fulness of God.
• Rev 3:7 : 7 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth and none shall shut, and that shutteth and none openeth:
• Rev 4:8 : 8 and the four living creatures, having each one of them six wings, are full of eyes round about and within: and they have no rest day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, [is] the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come.
• Job 11:7-9 : 7 Canst thou by searching find out God? Canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? 8 It is high as heaven; what canst thou do? Deeper than Sheol; What canst thou know? 9 The measure thereof is longer than the earth, And broader than the sea.