Proverbs 11:22

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

נֶ֣זֶם זָ֭הָב בְּאַ֣ף חֲזִ֑יר אִשָּׁ֥ה יָ֝פָ֗ה וְסָ֣רַת טָֽעַם׃

Transliteration

Nezem zāhāb bəʾap ḥăzîr ʾiššâ yāpâ wəsārat ṭāʿam.

Grammar Details

• *Nezem*: masculine singular noun - ring/nose-ring
• *zāhāb*: masculine singular noun - gold
• *bəʾap*: preposition + masculine singular construct noun - in snout of
• *ḥăzîr*: masculine singular noun - pig/swine
• *ʾiššâ*: feminine singular noun - woman
• *yāpâ*: feminine singular adjective - beautiful
• *wəsārat*: conjunction + feminine singular adjective construct - and turning aside from
• *ṭāʿam*: masculine singular noun - discretion/good sense

Word Meanings

• *Nezem*: ring/nose-ring/ornament
• *zāhāb*: gold
• *ʾap*: nose/nostrils/face/snout
• *ḥăzîr*: pig/swine
• *ʾiššâ*: woman/wife
• *yāpâ*: beautiful/fair/lovely
• *sārat*: turning aside from/departing from
• *ṭāʿam*: discretion/good sense/judgment/taste

Referenced Verses

• Prov 31:30 : 30 Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.
• Ezek 16:15-22 : 15 But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was. 16 And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so. 17 Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of men, and didst commit whoredom with them, 18 And tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them. 19 My meat also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou hast even set it before them for a sweet savour: and thus it was, saith the Lord GOD. 20 Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter, 21 That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them? 22 And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.
• Nah 3:4-6 : 4 Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts. 5 Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame. 6 And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.
• 1 Pet 3:3-4 : 3 Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; 4 But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
• Gen 24:47 : 47 And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter art thou? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bare unto him: and I put the earring upon her face, and the bracelets upon her hands.
• Prov 7:10 : 10 And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.
• Prov 9:13 : 13 A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.
• 2 Pet 2:22 : 22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.