Proverbs 15:25

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בֵּ֣ית גֵּ֭אִים יִסַּ֥ח ׀ יְהוָ֑ה וְ֝יַצֵּ֗ב גְּב֣וּל אַלְמָנָֽה׃

Transliteration

Bêt gēʾîm yissaḥ YHWH wəyaṣṣēḇ gəḇûl ʾalmānāh

Grammar Details

• *Bêt*: noun, masculine singular construct - house of
• *gēʾîm*: adjective, masculine plural - proud/arrogant ones
• *yissaḥ*: qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - tears down/uproots
• YHWH: proper noun - divine name
• *wəyaṣṣēḇ*: conjunction + hiphil imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - but establishes/sets up
• *gəḇûl*: noun, masculine singular construct - boundary of
• *ʾalmānāh*: noun, feminine singular - widow

Word Meanings

• *Bêt gēʾîm*: house of proud/dwelling of arrogant
• *yissaḥ*: tears down/uproots/destroys
• *wəyaṣṣēḇ gəḇûl*: but establishes boundary/yet secures property
• *ʾalmānāh*: widow/bereaved woman

Referenced Verses

• Ps 146:9 : 9 The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
• Prov 23:10 : 10 Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
• Prov 12:7 : 7 The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.
• Prov 14:11 : 11 The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.
• Ps 68:5-6 : 5 A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation. 6 God setteth{H8688)} the solitary in families: he bringeth out{H8688)} those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious{H8802)} dwell{H8804)} in a dry land.
• Deut 10:17-18 : 17 For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward: 18 He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
• Jas 1:27 : 27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
• 1 Pet 5:5 : 5 Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
• Isa 2:12 : 12 For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:
• Dan 5:20 : 20 But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:
• Ps 52:5 : 5 God shall likewise destroy{H8799)} thee for ever, he shall take thee away{H8799)}, and pluck thee out{H8799)} of thy dwelling place, and root thee out{H8765)} of the land of the living. Selah.
• Deut 19:14 : 14 Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.
• Job 40:11-13 : 11 Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one that is proud, and abase him. 12 Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place. 13 Hide them in the dust together; and bind their faces in secret.
• Ps 138:6 : 6 Though the LORD be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: but the proud he knoweth afar off.
• Ps 52:1 : 1 To the chief Musician{H8764)}, Maschil{H8688)}, A Psalm of David, when Doeg the Edomite came{H8800)} and told{H8686)} Saul, and said{H8799)} unto him, David is come{H8804)} to the house of Ahimelech. Why boastest{H8691)} thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually.