Proverbs 25:16

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

דְּבַ֣שׁ מָ֭צָאתָ אֱכֹ֣ל דַּיֶּ֑ךָּ פֶּן־תִּ֝שְׂבָּעֶ֗נּוּ וַהֲקֵֽאתֽוֹ׃

Transliteration

dĕbaš māṣāʾtā ʾĕkōl dayyekkā lest-tiśbāʿennû and-hăqēʾōtô

Grammar Details

*dĕbaš*: noun, masculine singular - honey
*māṣāʾtā*: qal perfect, 2nd person masculine singular - you have found
*ʾĕkōl*: qal imperative, masculine singular - eat
*dayyekkā*: noun, masculine singular + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your sufficiency
*pen*: conjunction - lest
*tiśbāʿennû*: qal imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - you will be filled with it
*wa*: conjunction - and
*hăqēʾōtô*: hiphil perfect, 2nd person masculine singular + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - you will vomit it

Word Meanings

*dĕbaš*: honey/sweet substance
*māṣāʾtā*: you have found/you discovered
*ʾĕkōl*: eat/consume
*dayyekkā*: your sufficiency/your fill/enough for you
*tiśbāʿennû*: you will be filled with it/you will be satiated with it
*hăqēʾōtô*: you will vomit it/you will spew it out

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Referenced Verses

Prov 25:27 : 27 It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.
Isa 7:15 : 15 Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
Isa 7:22 : 22 And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land.
Luke 21:34 : 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.
Eph 5:18 : 18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
Judg 14:8-9 : 8 And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion. 9 And he took thereof in his hands, and went on eating, and came to his father and mother, and he gave them, and they did eat: but he told not them that he had taken the honey out of the carcase of the lion.
1 Sam 14:25-27 : 25 And all they of the land came to a wood; and there was honey upon the ground. 26 And when the people were come into the wood, behold, the honey dropped; but no man put his hand to his mouth: for the people feared the oath. 27 But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped it in an honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened.
Prov 23:8 : 8 The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.
Prov 24:13-14 : 13 My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste: 14 So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul: when thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off.

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