Proverbs 1:27

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בְּבֹ֤א *כשאוה **כְשׁוֹאָ֨ה ׀ פַּחְדְּכֶ֗ם וְֽ֭אֵידְכֶם כְּסוּפָ֣ה יֶאֱתֶ֑ה בְּבֹ֥א עֲ֝לֵיכֶ֗ם צָרָ֥ה וְצוּקָֽה׃

Transliteration

bəvo kesho'ah paḥdəkem wə'eidkem kesufah ye'eteh bəvo 'aleikem tsarah wətsuqah

Grammar Details

• *bəvo*: preposition + qal infinitive construct - when comes
• *kesho'ah*: preposition + feminine singular noun - like a storm
• *paḥdəkem*: masculine singular noun + 2nd masculine plural suffix - your terror
• *wə'eidkem*: conjunction + masculine singular noun + 2nd masculine plural suffix - and your calamity
• *kesufah*: preposition + feminine singular noun - like a whirlwind
• *ye'eteh*: qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - it comes
• *'aleikem*: preposition + 2nd masculine plural suffix - upon you
• *tsarah*: feminine singular noun - distress
• *wətsuqah*: conjunction + feminine singular noun - and anguish

Word Meanings

• *sho'ah*: storm/devastation/destruction
• *'eid*: calamity/disaster/distress
• *sufah*: whirlwind/storm/tempest
• *ye'eteh*: comes/arrives/approaches
• *tsarah*: distress/adversity/trouble
• *tsuqah*: anguish/distress/constraint

Referenced Verses

• Prov 3:25-26 : 25 Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh. 26 For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.
• Prov 10:24-25 : 24 The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted. 25 As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.
• Isa 17:13 : 13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
• Nah 1:3 : 3 The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
• Luke 21:23-26 : 23 But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people. 24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled. 25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; 26 Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
• Luke 21:34-35 : 34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. 35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
• Rom 2:9 : 9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
• 1 Thess 5:3 : 3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
• Rev 6:15-17 : 15 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; 16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: 17 For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
• Ps 58:9 : 9 Before your pots can feel{H8799)} the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind{H8799)}, both living, and in his wrath.
• Ps 69:22-28 : 22 Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap. 23 Let their eyes be darkened{H8799)}, that they see{H8800)} not; and make their loins continually to shake{H8685)}. 24 Pour out{H8798)} thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold{H8686)} of them. 25 Let their habitation be desolate{H8737)}; and let none dwell{H8802)} in their tents. 26 For they persecute{H8804)} him whom thou hast smitten{H8689)}; and they talk{H8762)} to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded. 27 Add{H8798)} iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come{H8799)} into thy righteousness. 28 Let them be blotted{H8735)} out of the book of the living, and not be written{H8735)} with the righteous.