Proverbs 13:20

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הוֹלֵ֣ךְ אֶת־חֲכָמִ֣ים יֶחְכָּ֑ם וְרֹעֶ֖ה כְסִילִ֣ים יֵרֽוֹעַ׃

Transliteration

hôlēk ʾet-ḥăkāmîm yeḥkām wə-rōʿê kəsîlîm yērôaʿ

Grammar Details

• *hôlēk*: verb, qal participle, masculine singular - walking/going
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *ḥăkāmîm*: adjective, masculine plural - wise ones
• *yeḥkām*: verb, qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - will become wise
• *wə-*: conjunction - but
• *rōʿê*: verb, qal participle, masculine singular construct - one associating with/shepherding
• *kəsîlîm*: noun, masculine plural - fools
• *yērôaʿ*: verb, niphal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - will suffer harm

Word Meanings

• *hôlēk*: walking/going/associating with
• *ḥăkāmîm*: wise ones/sages
• *yeḥkām*: will become wise/will grow wise
• *rōʿê*: one associating with/shepherding/befriending
• *kəsîlîm*: fools/stupid persons
• *yērôaʿ*: will suffer harm/will be broken/will be destroyed

Referenced Verses

• 1 Cor 15:33-34 : 33 Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. 34 Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.
• 2 Cor 6:14-18 : 14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? 15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? 16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, 18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
• Prov 9:6 : 6 Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
• Prov 15:31 : 31 The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise.
• Rev 18:4 : 4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
• Prov 7:27 : 27 Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
• Prov 1:11-19 : 11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: 12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: 13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil: 14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse: 15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path: 16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. 17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. 18 And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives. 19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
• Prov 2:12-20 : 12 To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things; 13 Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness; 14 Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked; 15 Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths: 16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words; 17 Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God. 18 For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead. 19 None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life. 20 That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.
• Prov 7:22-23 : 22 He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; 23 Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
• Acts 2:42 : 42 And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
• Gen 13:12-13 : 12 Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom. 13 But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.
• 1 Kgs 12:8 : 8 But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and consulted with the young men that were grown up with him, and which stood before him:
• 1 Kgs 22:4 : 4 And he said unto Jehoshaphat, Wilt thou go with me to battle to Ramothgilead? And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I am as thou art, my people as thy people, my horses as thy horses.
• Ps 119:63 : 63 I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts.