Proverbs 22:8

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Proverbs 22:8


← Proverbs 22:7 Proverbs 22:8 (KJV) Proverbs 22:9 →
The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.
He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

He that sowethH2232 iniquityH5766 shall reapH7114 vanityH205: and the rodH7626 of his angerH5678 shall failH3615.


Original Hebrew

זֹורֵעַ עַוְלָה [יִקְצֹור־ כ] (יִקְצָר־אָוֶן ק) וְשֵׁבֶט עֶבְרָתֹו יִכְלֶה׃

Hebrew Transliteration Strong's Morphology Gloss
זוֹרֵ֣עַ
zo.Re.a' H2232 HVqrmsa (one who) sows
עַ֭וְלָה
'Av.lah H5766 HNcbsa unrighteousness
[יקצור כ] (יִקְצָר ק)
[qâtsar כ] (yik.tzor- ק) H7114 כ HVqi3ms (he will reap ק)
אָ֑וֶן
'A.ven H205 HNcmsa trouble
וְ/שֵׁ֖בֶט
ve./She.vet H7626 HC/Ncmsc and/ (the) rod of
עֶבְרָת֣/וֹ
ev.ra.T/o H5678 HNcfsc/Sp3ms fury/ his
יִכְלֶֽה
yikh.Leh H3615 HVqi3ms it will end
Where the Hebrew text is written one way but traditionally read another, both are shown: [written form כ] (Ketiv) and (read form ק) (Qere).
Strong's References
  • H205 — אָוֶן (ʼâven, aw-ven'): from an unused root perhaps meaning properly, to pant (hence, to exert oneself, usually in vain; to come to naught); strictly nothingness; also trouble. vanity, wickedness; specifically an idol; affliction, evil, false, idol, iniquity, mischief, mourners(-ing), naught, sorrow, unjust, unrighteous, vain, vanity, wicked(-ness). Compare אַיִן (ʼayin) H369.
  • H2232 — זָרַע (zâraʻ, zaw-rah'): a primitive root; to sow; figuratively, to disseminate, plant, fructify; bear, conceive seed, set with sow(-er), yield.
  • H3615 — כָּלָה (kâlâh, kaw-law'): a primitive root; to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitived (to complete, prepare, consume); accomplish, cease, consume (away), determine, destroy (utterly), be (when... were) done, (be an) end (of), expire, (cause to) fail, faint, finish, fulfil, [idiom] fully, [idiom] have, leave (off), long, bring to pass, wholly reap, make clean riddance, spend, quite take away, waste.
  • H5678 — עֶבְרָה (ʻebrâh, eb-raw'): feminine of עֵבֶר (ʻêber) H5676; an outburst of passion; anger, rage, wrath.
  • H5766 — עֶוֶל (ʻevel, eh'-vel): or עָוֶל (ʻâvel); and (feminine) עַוְלָה (ʻavlâh); or עוֹלָה (ʻôwlâh); or עֹלָה (ʻôlâh); from עֲוַל (ʻăval) H5765; (moral) evil; iniquity, perverseness, unjust(-ly), unrighteousness(-ly); wicked(-ness).
  • H7114 — קָצַר (qâtsar, kaw-tsar'): a primitive root; to dock off, i.e. curtail (transitive or intransitive, literal or figurative); especially to harvest (grass or grain); [idiom] at all, cut down, much discouraged, grieve, harvestman, lothe, mourn, reap(-er), (be, wax) short(-en, -er), straiten, trouble, vex.
  • H7626 — שֵׁבֶט (shêbeṭ, shay'-bet): from an unused root probably meaning to branch off; a scion, i.e. (literally) a stick (for punishing, writing, fighting, ruling, walking, etc.) or (figuratively) a clan; [idiom] correction, dart, rod, sceptre, staff, tribe.
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