Proverbs 30:8

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Remove far from me falsehood and lies; Give me neither poverty nor riches; Feed me with the food that is needful for me:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

שָׁ֤וְא ׀ וּֽדְבַר־כָּזָ֡ב הַרְחֵ֬ק מִמֶּ֗נִּי רֵ֣אשׁ וָ֭עֹשֶׁר אַל־תִּֽתֶּן־לִ֑י הַ֝טְרִיפֵ֗נִי לֶ֣חֶם חֻקִּֽי׃

Transliteration

Šāwʾ ûdebar-kāzāb harḥēq mimmennî rēʾš wāʿōšer ʾal-titten-lî haṭrîpēnî leḥem ḥuqqî

Grammar Details

• *Šāwʾ*: masculine singular noun - falsehood/vanity/emptiness
• *ûdebar*: conjunction + construct state, masculine singular - and word of
• *kāzāb*: masculine singular noun - lie/falsehood
• *harḥēq*: hiphil imperative, masculine singular - remove far/keep far
• *mimmennî*: preposition + first person singular suffix - from me
• *rēʾš*: masculine singular noun - poverty/need
• *wāʿōšer*: conjunction + masculine singular noun - and riches/wealth
• *ʾal*: negative particle for prohibitions - do not
• *titten*: qal imperfect, second masculine singular jussive - give
• *lî*: preposition + first person singular suffix - to me
• *haṭrîpēnî*: hiphil imperative, masculine singular + first person singular suffix - cause me to eat/feed me
• *leḥem*: masculine singular noun - bread/food
• *ḥuqqî*: masculine singular noun + first person singular suffix - my portion/my allotment

Word Meanings

• *Šāwʾ*: falsehood/vanity/emptiness/worthlessness
• *rēʾš*: poverty/need/destitution
• *ḥuqqî*: my portion/my allotment/my prescribed portion/my due

Referenced Verses

• Matt 6:11 : 11 Give us this day our daily bread.
• Luke 11:3 : 3 Give us day by day our daily bread.
• 1 Tim 6:6-8 : 6 But godliness with contentment is great gain: 7 for we brought nothing into the world, for neither can we carry {G3761} anything out; 8 but having food and covering we shall be therewith content.
• Ps 62:9-9 : 9 Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: In the balances they will go up; They are together lighter than vanity. 10 Trust not in oppression, And become not vain in robbery: If riches increase, set not your heart [thereon].
• Ps 119:29 : 29 Remove from me the way of falsehood; And grant me thy law graciously.
• Ps 119:37 : 37 Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity, And quicken me in thy ways.
• Prov 21:6 : 6 The getting of treasures by a lying tongue Is a vapor driven to and fro by them that seek death.
• Prov 22:8 : 8 He that soweth iniquity shall reap calamity; And the rod of his wrath shall fail.
• Prov 23:5 : 5 Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? For [riches] certainly make themselves wings, Like an eagle that flieth toward heaven.
• Eccl 1:2 : 2 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; vanity of vanities, all is vanity.
• Isa 5:18 : 18 Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and sin as it were with a cart rope;
• Gen 28:20 : 20 And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,
• Gen 48:15-16 : 15 And he blessed Joseph, and said, The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God who hath fed me all my life long unto this day, 16 the angel who hath redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.
• Exod 16:15 : 15 And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, What is it? for they knew not what it was. And Moses said unto them, It is the bread which Jehovah hath given you to eat.
• Exod 16:18 : 18 And when they measured it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.
• Exod 16:21-22 : 21 And they gathered it morning by morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted. 22 And it came to pass, that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one: and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.
• Exod 16:29 : 29 See, for that Jehovah hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.
• Exod 16:35 : 35 And the children of Israel did eat the manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat the manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.
• 2 Kgs 25:30 : 30 and for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him of the king, every day a portion, all the days of his life.
• Job 23:12 : 12 I have not gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
• John 2:8 : 8 And he saith unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto the ruler of the feast. And they bare it.
• Acts 14:15 : 15 and saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good tidings, that ye should turn from these vain things unto a living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all that in them is:
• Matt 6:33 : 33 But seek ye first his kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
• Jer 37:21 : 21 Then Zedekiah the king commanded, and they committed Jeremiah into the court of the guard; and they gave him daily a loaf of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city was spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.
• Jer 52:34 : 34 and for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him by the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life.
• Isa 59:4 : 4 None sueth in righteousness, and none pleadeth in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.