Proverbs 24:25

Geneva Bible (1560)

But to them that rebuke him, shall be pleasure, and vpon them shall come the blessing of goodnesse.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְלַמּוֹכִיחִ֥ים יִנְעָ֑ם וַֽ֝עֲלֵיהֶ֗ם תָּב֥וֹא בִרְכַּת־טֹֽוּב׃

Transliteration

And-to-the-môkîḥîm yinʿām and-upon-them tābôʾ birkat-ṭôb

Grammar Details

• *môkîḥîm*: Hiphil participle, masculine plural with article - those who rebuke
• *yinʿām*: Qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - it will be pleasant
• *tābôʾ*: Qal imperfect, 3rd person feminine singular - will come
• *birkat*: feminine singular construct - blessing of
• *ṭôb*: masculine singular noun - good

Word Meanings

• *môkîḥîm*: those who rebuke/those who correct/those who reprove
• *yinʿām*: it will be pleasant/it will be delightful
• *birkat*-*ṭôb*: blessing of good/good blessing

Referenced Verses

• Prov 28:23 : 23 He that rebuketh a man, shall finde more fauour at length, then he that flattereth with his tongue.
• Matt 14:4 : 4 For Iohn saide vnto him, It is not lawfull for thee to haue her.
• 1 Tim 5:20 : 20 Them that sinne, rebuke openly, that the rest also may feare.
• 2 Tim 4:2 : 2 Preach the worde: be instant, in season and out of season: improue, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine.
• Titus 1:13 : 13 This witnesse is true: wherefore conuince them sharply, that they may be sound in ye faith,
• Titus 2:15 : 15 These things speake, and exhort, and conuince with all authoritie. See that no man despise thee.
• Lev 19:17 : 17 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart, but thou shalt plainely rebuke thy neighbour, and suffer him not to sinne.
• 1 Sam 3:13 : 13 And I haue tolde him that I will iudge his house for euer, for the iniquitie which hee knoweth, because his sonnes ranne into a slaunder, and he stayed them not.
• 1 Kgs 21:19-20 : 19 Therefore shalt thou say vnto him, Thus sayth the Lord, Hast thou killed, and also gotten possession? And thou shalt speake vnto him, saying, Thus sayth the Lorde, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth, shal dogs licke euen thy blood also. 20 And Ahab sayd to Eliiah, Hast thou found mee, O mine enemie? And he answered, I haue found thee: for thou hast solde thy selfe to worke wickednes in the sight of the Lord.
• Neh 5:7-9 : 7 And I thought in my minde, and I rebuked the princes, and the rulers, and saide vnto them, You lay burthens euery one vpon his brethren: and I set a great assemblie against them, 8 And I said vnto them, We (according to our abilitie) haue redeemed our brethren the Iewes, which were solde vnto the heathen: and will you sell your brethren againe, or shall they be solde vnto vs? Then helde they their peace, and could not answere. 9 I said also, That which ye do, is not good. Ought ye not to walke in the feare of our God, for the reproche of the heathen our enemies?
• Neh 13:8-9 : 8 And it grieued me sore: therefore I cast forth all the vessels of the house of Tobiah out of the chamber. 9 And I commanded them to clense ye chambers: and thither brought I againe the vessels of the house of God with the meate offring and the incense. 10 And I perceiued that the portions of the Leuites had not bene giuen, and that euery one was fled to his lande, euen the Leuites and singers that executed the worke. 11 Then reproued I the rulers and sayd, Why is the house of God forsaken? And I assembled them, and set them in their place.
• Neh 13:17 : 17 Then reprooued I the rulers of Iudah, and sayd vnto them, What euil thing is this that yee doe, and breake the Sabbath day?
• Neh 13:25 : 25 Then I reprooued them, & cursed them, and smote certaine of them, and pulled off their heare, and tooke an othe of them by God, Yee shall not giue your daughters vnto their sonnes, neither shall ye take of their daughters vnto your sonnes, nor for your selues.
• Neh 13:28 : 28 And one of the sonnes of Ioiada the sonne of Eliashib the hie Priest was the sonne in law of Sanballat the Horonite: but I chased him fro me.
• Job 29:16-18 : 16 I was a father vnto the poore, and when I knewe not the cause, I sought it out diligently. 17 I brake also the chawes of the vnrighteous man, and pluckt the praye out of his teeth. 18 Then I sayde, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiplie my dayes as the sand.