Proverbs 30:14

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

דּ֤וֹר ׀ חֲרָב֣וֹת שִׁנָּיו֮ וּֽמַאֲכָל֢וֹת מְֽתַלְּעֹ֫תָ֥יו לֶאֱכֹ֣ל עֲנִיִּ֣ים מֵאֶ֑רֶץ וְ֝אֶבְיוֹנִ֗ים מֵאָדָֽם׃ פ

Transliteration

Dôr ḥărābôt šinnāyw ûmaʾăḵālôt metalleʿōtāyw leʾĕḵōl ʿăniyyîm mēʾereṣ weʾebyônîm mēʾādām

Grammar Details

• *Dôr*: masculine singular noun - generation
• *ḥărābôt*: feminine plural noun - swords
• *šinnāyw*: feminine plural noun + third person masculine singular suffix - his teeth
• *ûmaʾăḵālôt*: conjunction + feminine plural noun - and knives
• *metalleʿōtāyw*: feminine plural noun + third person masculine singular suffix - his jaw teeth/molars
• *leʾĕḵōl*: preposition + qal infinitive construct - to devour
• *ʿăniyyîm*: masculine plural adjective/noun - poor/afflicted ones
• *mēʾereṣ*: preposition + feminine singular noun - from the earth/land
• *weʾebyônîm*: conjunction + masculine plural adjective/noun - and needy ones
• *mēʾādām*: preposition + masculine singular noun - from mankind/humanity

Word Meanings

• *ḥărābôt*: swords/daggers/cutting instruments
• *metalleʿōtāyw*: his jaw teeth/molars/fangs
• *ʿăniyyîm*: poor/afflicted/humble/weak ones

Referenced Verses

• Ps 57:4 : 4 My soul is among lions: and I lie{H8799)} even among them that are set on fire{H8802)}, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
• Ps 3:7 : 7 Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.
• Ps 14:4 : 4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
• Job 29:17 : 17 And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
• Amos 8:4 : 4 Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
• Eccl 4:1 : 1 So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
• Ps 10:8-9 : 8 He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor. 9 He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
• Rev 9:8 : 8 And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.
• Ps 12:5 : 5 For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
• Ps 52:2 : 2 Thy tongue deviseth{H8799)} mischiefs; like a sharp{H8794)} razor, working{H8802)} deceitfully.
• Ps 58:6 : 6 Break{H8798)} their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out{H8800)} the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
• Prov 12:18 : 18 There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
• Prov 22:16 : 16 He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.
• Prov 28:3 : 3 A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.
• Isa 32:7 : 7 The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.
• Dan 7:5-7 : 5 And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh. 6 After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it. 7 After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.
• Amos 2:7 : 7 That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name:
• Amos 4:1 : 1 Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.
• Mic 2:1-2 : 1 Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand. 2 And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
• Mic 3:1-5 : 1 And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment? 2 Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; 3 Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron. 4 Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings. 5 Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.
• Hab 3:14 : 14 Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly.
• Zeph 3:3 : 3 Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
• Matt 23:13 : 13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
• Jas 5:1-4 : 1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. 3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. 4 Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.