Proverbs 15:7

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

The lips of the wise scatter knowledge, And the heart of fools `is' not right.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

שִׂפְתֵ֣י חֲ֭כָמִים יְזָ֣רוּ דָ֑עַת וְלֵ֖ב כְּסִילִ֣ים לֹא־כֵֽן׃

Transliteration

Śip̄tê ḥăḵāmîm yəzārû dāʿat wəlēḇ kəsîlîm lōʾ-ḵēn

Grammar Details

• *Śip̄tê*: noun, feminine dual construct - lips of
• *ḥăḵāmîm*: adjective, masculine plural - wise ones
• *yəzārû*: piel imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - scatter/spread/disperse
• *dāʿat*: noun, feminine singular - knowledge
• *wəlēḇ*: conjunction + noun, masculine singular construct - but heart of
• *kəsîlîm*: noun, masculine plural - fools
• *lōʾ-ḵēn*: negative particle + adverb - not so

Word Meanings

• *Śip̄tê ḥăḵāmîm*: lips of wise/speech of wise ones
• *yəzārû*: scatter/spread/disperse
• *dāʿat*: knowledge/understanding/insight
• *wəlēḇ kəsîlîm*: but heart of fools/yet mind of foolish
• *lōʾ-ḵēn*: not so/is not right/does not do so

Referenced Verses

• Matt 12:34 : 34 `Brood of vipers! how are ye able to speak good things -- being evil? for out of the abundance of the heart doth the mouth speak.
• Matt 28:18-20 : 18 And having come near, Jesus spake to them, saying, `Given to me was all authority in heaven and on earth; 19 having gone, then, disciple all the nations, (baptizing them -- to the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all, whatever I did command you,) and lo, I am with you all the days -- till the full end of the age.'
• Mark 16:15 : 15 and he said to them, `Having gone to all the world, proclaim the good news to all the creation;
• Acts 18:9-9 : 9 And the Lord said through a vision in the night to Paul, `Be not afraid, but be speaking and thou mayest be not silent; 10 because I am with thee, and no one shall set on thee to do thee evil; because I have much people in this city;'
• Rom 10:14-17 : 14 How then shall they call upon `him' in whom they did not believe? and how shall they believe `on him' of whom they did not hear? and how shall they hear apart from one preaching? 15 and how shall they preach, if they may not be sent? according as it hath been written, `How beautiful the feet of those proclaiming good tidings of peace, of those proclaiming good tidings of the good things!' 16 But they were not all obedient to the good tidings, for Isaiah saith, `Lord, who did give credence to our report?' 17 so then the faith `is' by a report, and the report through a saying of God,
• Rom 15:18-21 : 18 for I will not dare to speak anything of the things that Christ did not work through me, to obedience of nations, by word and deed, 19 in power of signs and wonders, in power of the Spirit of God; so that I, from Jerusalem, and in a circle as far as Illyricum, have fully preached the good news of the Christ; 20 and so counting it honour to proclaim good news, not where Christ was named -- that upon another's foundation I might not build -- 21 but according as it hath been written, `To whom it was not told concerning him, they shall see; and they who have not heard, shall understand.'
• Eph 4:29 : 29 Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is good unto the needful building up, that it may give grace to the hearers;
• 2 Tim 2:2 : 2 and the things that thou didst hear from me through many witnesses, these things be committing to stedfast men, who shall be sufficient also others to teach;
• Jas 3:6 : 6 and the tongue `is' a fire, the world of the unrighteousness, so the tongue is set in our members, which is spotting our whole body, and is setting on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by the gehenna.
• Ps 37:30 : 30 The mouth of the righteous uttereth wisdom, And his tongue speaketh judgment.
• Ps 45:2 : 2 Thou hast been beautified above the sons of men, Grace hath been poured into thy lips, Therefore hath God blessed thee to the age.
• Ps 51:13-15 : 13 I teach transgressors Thy ways, And sinners unto Thee do return. 14 Deliver me from blood, O God, God of my salvation, My tongue singeth of Thy righteousness. 15 O Lord, my lips thou dost open, And my mouth declareth Thy praise.
• Ps 71:15-18 : 15 My mouth recounteth Thy righteousness, All the day Thy salvation, For I have not known the numbers. 16 I come in the might of the Lord Jehovah, I mention Thy righteousness -- Thine only. 17 God, Thou hast taught me from my youth, And hitherto I declare Thy wonders. 18 And also unto old age and grey hairs, O God, forsake me not, Till I declare Thy strength to a generation, To every one that cometh Thy might.
• Ps 78:2-6 : 2 I open with a simile my mouth, I bring forth hidden things of old, 3 That we have heard and do know, And our fathers have recounted to us. 4 We do not hide from their sons, To a later generation recounting praises of Jehovah, And His strength, and His wonders that He hath done. 5 And He raiseth up a testimony in Jacob, And a law hath placed in Israel, That He commanded our fathers, To make them known to their sons. 6 So that a later generation doth know, Sons who are born, do rise and recount to their sons,
• Ps 119:13 : 13 With my lips I have recounted All the judgments of Thy mouth.
• Prov 10:20-21 : 20 The tongue of the righteous `is' chosen silver, The heart of the wicked -- as a little thing. 21 The lips of the righteous delight many, And fools for lack of heart die.
• Eccl 12:9-9 : 9 And further, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge, and gave ear, and sought out -- he made right many similes. 10 The preacher sought to find out pleasing words, and, written `by' the upright, words of truth.
• Song 4:11 : 11 Thy lips drop honey, O spouse, Honey and milk `are' under thy tongue, And the fragrance of thy garments `Is' as the fragrance of Lebanon.
• Matt 10:27 : 27 that which I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light, and that which you hear at the ear, proclaim on the house-tops.