Psalms 10:3

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, And the covetous renounceth, [yea], contemneth Jehovah.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּֽי־הִלֵּ֣ל רָ֭שָׁע עַל־תַּאֲוַ֣ת נַפְשׁ֑וֹ וּבֹצֵ֥עַ בֵּ֝רֵ֗ךְ נִ֘אֵ֥ץ ׀ יְהוָֽה׃

Transliteration

kî-hillēl rāšāʿ ʿal-taʾăwat napšô ûbōṣēaʿ bērēk niʾēṣ YHWH

Grammar Details

• *kî*: conjunction - for/because
• *hillēl*: piel perfect 3rd person masculine singular - he boasts/praises
• *rāšāʿ*: noun masculine singular - wicked person
• *ʿal-taʾăwat*: preposition + noun feminine construct - about desire of
• *napšô*: noun feminine singular + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his soul/self
• *ûbōṣēaʿ*: conjunction + qal participle masculine singular - and one who gains/profits
• *bērēk*: piel perfect 3rd person masculine singular - he blesses
• *niʾēṣ*: piel perfect 3rd person masculine singular - he spurns/despises
• *YHWH*: divine name - object of verb *niʾēṣ*

Word Meanings

• *hillēl*: boast/praise/celebrate
• *rāšāʿ*: wicked person/evildoer
• *taʾăwat*: desire/craving/lust
• *nepeš*: soul/self/life/being
• *bōṣēaʿ*: one who gains profit/cuts off gain/greedy person
• *bērēk*: bless/praise/kneel
• *niʾēṣ*: spurn/despise/reject

Referenced Verses

• Ps 94:4 : 4 They prate, they speak arrogantly: All the workers of iniquity boast themselves.
• Ps 49:6 : 6 They that trust in their wealth, And boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;
• Ps 49:11-13 : 11 Their inward thought is, [that] their houses [shall continue] for ever, [And] their dwelling-places to all generations; They call their lands after their own names. 12 But man [being] in honor abideth not: He is like the beasts that perish. 13 This their way is their folly: Yet after them men approve their sayings. {H5542}
• Ps 49:18 : 18 Though while he lived he blessed his soul (And men praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself,)
• Ps 52:1 : 1 For the Chief Musician. Maschil of David; when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David is come to the house of Ahimelech. Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? The lovingkindness of God [endureth] continually.
• Ps 73:8-9 : 8 They scoff, and in wickedness utter oppression: They speak loftily. 9 They have set their mouth in the heavens, And their tongue walketh through the earth.
• Exod 15:9 : 9 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; My desire shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
• Lev 26:30 : 30 And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your sun-images, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul shall abhor you.
• Deut 29:19 : 19 and it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry.
• Deut 32:19 : 19 And Jehovah saw [it], and abhorred [them], Because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.
• 1 Sam 23:21 : 21 And Saul said, Blessed be ye of Jehovah; for ye have had compassion on me.
• Job 31:24 : 24 If I have made gold my hope, And have said to the fine gold, [Thou art] my confidence;
• Ps 5:6 : 6 Thou wilt destroy them that speak lies: Jehovah abhorreth the blood-thirsty and deceitful man.
• Ps 35:21 : 21 Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me; They said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.
• Prov 28:4 : 4 They that forsake the law praise the wicked; But such as keep the law contend with them.
• Isa 10:7-9 : 7 Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off nations not a few. 8 For he saith, Are not my princes all of them kings? 9 Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus? 10 As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria; 11 shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?
• Isa 37:23 : 23 Whom hast thou defied and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice and lifted up thine eyes on high? [even] against the Holy One of Israel.
• Isa 57:17 : 17 For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him; I hid [my face] and was wroth; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.
• Jer 22:17 : 17 But thine eyes and thy heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
• Hos 12:7-8 : 7 [He is] a trafficker, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress. 8 And Ephraim said, Surely I am become rich, I have found me wealth: in all my labors they shall find in me no iniquity that were sin.
• Mic 6:10-12 : 10 Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a scant measure that is abominable? 11 Shall I be pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights? 12 For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
• Hab 2:9 : 9 Woe to him that getteth an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!
• Zech 11:5-8 : 5 whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty; and they that sell them say, Blessed be Jehovah, for I am rich; and their own shepherds pity them not. 6 For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith Jehovah; but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbor's hand, and into the hand of his king; and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them. 7 So I fed the flock of slaughter, verily the poor of the flock. And I took unto me two staves; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock. 8 And I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.
• Matt 26:15-16 : 15 and said, What are ye willing to give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they weighed unto him thirty pieces of silver. 16 And from that time he sought opportunity to deliver him [unto them].
• Luke 12:15 : 15 And he said unto them, Take heed, and keep yourselves from all covetousness: for a man's {G846} life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
• Luke 12:19 : 19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, be merry.
• Luke 16:14-15 : 14 And the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all these things; and they scoffed at him. 15 And he said unto them, Ye are they that justify yourselves in the sight of men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
• Rom 1:29 : 29 being filled with all unrighteousness, {G4202} wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
• Rom 1:32 : 32 who, knowing the ordinance of God, that they that practise such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also consent with them that practise them.
• 1 Cor 6:10 : 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
• Eph 5:5 : 5 For this ye know of a surety, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
• Col 3:5 : 5 Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
• 1 Tim 6:9-9 : 9 But they that are minded to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and hurtful lusts, such as drown men in destruction and perdition. 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil: which {G3713} some reaching after have been led astray from the faith, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
• 2 Tim 3:2-4 : 2 For men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, railers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good, 4 traitors, headstrong, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;
• Jas 4:13 : 13 Come now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into this city, and spend a year there, and trade, and get gain:
• Jas 4:16 : 16 But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil.
• 1 John 2:15 : 15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.