Proverbs 19:23

King James Version 1611 (Original)

The fear of the LORD tendeth to life: and he that hath it shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יִרְאַ֣ת יְהוָ֣ה לְחַיִּ֑ים וְשָׂבֵ֥עַ יָ֝לִ֗ין בַּל־יִפָּ֥קֶד רָֽע׃

Transliteration

yirʾat YHWH to ḥayyîm and śābēaʿ yālîn not yippāqed rāʿ.

Grammar Details

• *yirʾat*: noun, feminine singular construct - fear of
• *YHWH*: proper noun - LORD/Yahweh
• *ḥayyîm*: noun, masculine plural - life
• *śābēaʿ*: adjective, masculine singular - satisfied/full
• *yālîn*: verb, qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - will lodge/spend the night
• *yippāqed*: verb, niphal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - will be visited
• *rāʿ*: adjective, masculine singular - evil/bad

Word Meanings

• *yirʾat*: fear of/reverence of/awe of
• *ḥayyîm*: life/lifetime/living
• *śābēaʿ*: satisfied/full/abounding
• *yālîn*: will lodge/spend the night/abide
• *yippāqed*: will be visited/be punished/be attended to
• *rāʿ*: evil/bad/distress

Referenced Verses

• Matt 5:6 : 6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
• Heb 13:5-6 : 5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. 6 So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.
• Phil 4:11-12 : 11 Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. 12 I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
• 1 Tim 4:8 : 8 For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
• Prov 10:27 : 27 The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.
• Prov 14:26-27 : 26 In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge. 27 The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
• Ps 90:14 : 14 O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
• Ps 103:17 : 17 But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children;
• Ps 145:18-20 : 18 The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth. 19 He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them. 20 The LORD preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy.
• Isa 58:10-11 : 10 And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday: 11 And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
• Prov 12:21 : 21 There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief.
• 1 Tim 6:6-9 : 6 But godliness with contentment is great gain. 7 For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. 8 And having food and raiment let us be therewith content. 9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
• Ps 85:9 : 9 Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land.
• 2 Tim 4:18 : 18 And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
• Acts 9:31 : 31 Then had the churches rest throughout all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.
• Rom 8:28 : 28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
• Mal 3:16-17 : 16 Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name. 17 And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.
• Mal 4:2 : 2 But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
• Ps 91:16 : 16 With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.
• Ps 25:13 : 13 His soul shall dwell at ease; and his seed shall inherit the earth.
• Ps 34:9-9 : 9 O fear the LORD, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him. 10 The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing. 11 Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD.
• Ps 19:9 : 9 The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.
• Ps 33:18-19 : 18 Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy; 19 To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.