Proverbs 12:25

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

דְּאָגָ֣ה בְלֶב־אִ֣ישׁ יַשְׁחֶ֑נָּה וְדָבָ֖ר ט֣וֹב יְשַׂמְּחֶֽנָּה׃

Transliteration

dəʾāḡāh ḇəleḇ-ʾîš yašḥennāh wəḏāḇār ṭôḇ yəśamməḥennāh

Grammar Details

• *dəʾāḡāh*: noun, feminine singular - anxiety/worry
• *ḇəleḇ*: preposition + noun, masculine singular construct - in heart of
• *ʾîš*: noun, masculine singular - man
• *yašḥennāh*: verb, hiphil imperfect, 3rd masculine singular + 3rd feminine singular suffix - will depress it
• *wəḏāḇār*: conjunction + noun, masculine singular - and word
• *ṭôḇ*: adjective, masculine singular - good
• *yəśamməḥennāh*: verb, piel imperfect, 3rd masculine singular + 3rd feminine singular suffix - will make it glad

Word Meanings

• *dəʾāḡāh*: anxiety/worry/heaviness/fear
• *lēḇ*: heart/mind/inner being
• *yašḥennāh*: will depress it/weighs it down/makes it stoop
• *dāḇār*: word/thing/matter
• *ṭôḇ*: good/pleasant/kind
• *yəśamməḥennāh*: will make it glad/will cheer it/will rejoice it

Referenced Verses

• Prov 15:13 : 13 A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
• Isa 50:4 : 4 The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.
• Prov 15:23 : 23 A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!
• Prov 16:24 : 24 Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
• Prov 17:22 : 22 A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
• Prov 12:18 : 18 There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
• Prov 14:10 : 10 The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.
• Ps 38:6 : 6 I am troubled; I am bowed down{H8804)} greatly; I go{H8765)} mourning{H8802)} all the day long.
• Ps 42:11 : 11 Why art thou cast down{H8709)}, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted{H8799)} within me? hope{H8685)} thou in God: for I shall yet praise{H8686)} him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
• Prov 18:14 : 14 The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?
• Prov 25:11 : 11 A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
• Prov 27:9 : 9 Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.
• Zech 1:13 : 13 And the LORD answered the angel that talked with me with good words and comfortable words.
• Prov 15:15 : 15 All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.
• 2 Cor 2:4-7 : 4 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you. 5 But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all. 6 Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many. 7 So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.
• Neh 2:1-2 : 1 And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that wine was before him: and I took up the wine, and gave it unto the king. Now I had not been beforetime sad in his presence. 2 Wherefore the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid,
• Mark 14:33-34 : 33 And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy; 34 And saith unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death: tarry ye here, and watch.