Proverbs 30:3

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְלֹֽא־לָמַ֥דְתִּי חָכְמָ֑ה וְדַ֖עַת קְדֹשִׁ֣ים אֵדָֽע׃

Transliteration

welōʾ-lāmadtî ḥokmâ wedaʿat qedōšîm ʾēdāʿ

Grammar Details

• *welōʾ*: conjunction + negative particle - and not
• *lāmadtî*: qal perfect, first person singular - I have learned
• *ḥokmâ*: feminine singular noun - wisdom
• *wedaʿat*: conjunction + construct state, feminine singular - and knowledge of
• *qedōšîm*: masculine plural adjective/noun - holy ones/holy things
• *ʾēdāʿ*: qal imperfect, first person singular - I know/will know

Word Meanings

• *qedōšîm*: holy ones/holy things/the Holy One (plural of majesty)/sacred matters

Referenced Verses

• Prov 9:10 : 10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
• Isa 6:3 : 3 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.
• Isa 6:10 : 10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
• Isa 30:11 : 11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
• Isa 57:15 : 15 For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
• Amos 7:14-15 : 14 Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit: 15 And the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the LORD said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel.
• Matt 11:27 : 27 All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
• Matt 16:17 : 17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.
• John 17:3 : 3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
• Rom 11:33 : 33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
• Eph 3:18-19 : 18 May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; 19 And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
• Rev 3:7 : 7 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;
• Rev 4:8 : 8 And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.
• Job 11:7-9 : 7 Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? 8 It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? 9 The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.