Proverbs 8:36

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: All they that hate me love death.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְֽ֭חֹטְאִי חֹמֵ֣ס נַפְשׁ֑וֹ כָּל־מְ֝שַׂנְאַ֗י אָ֣הֲבוּ מָֽוֶת׃ פ

Transliteration

And-ḥōṭᵊʾî ḥōmēs napšô, all-mᵊśanʾay ʾāhăbû māwet

Grammar Details

• *ḥōṭᵊʾî*: qal participle masculine singular with 1st person singular suffix - one who sins against me
• *ḥōmēs*: qal participle masculine singular - injuring/violating
• *napšô*: feminine singular noun with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his soul
• *mᵊśanʾay*: piel participle masculine plural with 1st person singular suffix - those who hate me
• *ʾāhăbû*: qal perfect 3rd person common plural - they love
• *māwet*: masculine singular noun - death

Word Meanings

• *ḥōṭᵊʾî*: one who sins against me/one who misses me
• *ḥōmēs*: injuring/violating/wronging
• *napšô*: his soul/self/life/being
• *mᵊśanʾay*: those who hate me/my haters
• *ʾāhăbû*: they love/cherish/prefer
• *māwet*: death/dying/realm of death

Referenced Verses

• Prov 15:32 : 32 He that refuseth correction despiseth his own soul; But he that hearkeneth to reproof getteth understanding.
• 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.
• Prov 1:31 : 31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, And be filled with their own devices.
• Prov 5:11-12 : 11 And thou mourn at thy latter end, When thy flesh and thy body are consumed, 12 And say, How have I hated instruction, And my heart despised reproof;
• Prov 5:22-23 : 22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked, And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin. 23 He shall die for lack of instruction; And in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
• Prov 12:1 : 1 Whoso loveth correction loveth knowledge; But he that hateth reproof is brutish.
• Prov 21:6 : 6 The getting of treasures by a lying tongue Is a vapor driven to and fro by them that seek death.
• Ezek 18:31 : 31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, wherein ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
• Ezek 33:11 : 11 Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
• John 3:19-20 : 19 And this is the judgment, that the light is come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, and cometh not to the light, lest his works should be reproved.
• John 15:23-24 : 23 He that hateth me hateth my Father also. 24 If I had not done among them the works which none other did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
• Acts 13:46 : 46 And Paul and Barnabas spake out boldly, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first be spoken to you. {G1161} Seeing ye thrust it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy {G3756} of eternal life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
• 1 Cor 16:22 : 22 If any man loveth not the Lord, let him be anathema. Maranatha.
• Heb 2:3 : 3 how shall we escape, if we neglect so great a salvation? which having at the first been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed unto us by them that heard;
• Heb 10:29 : 29 of how much sorer punishment, think ye, shall he be judged worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant wherewith {G1722} he was sanctified an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?