Proverbs 14:1
Old Testament • 7 words with Strong's data
"Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands."
Word-by-Word Analysis
חָכָם
châkâm
wise, (i.e. intelligent, skilful or artful)
בָּנָה
bânâh
to build (literally and figuratively)
בַּיִת
bayith
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
כְּסִיל
kᵉçîyl
properly, fat, i.e. (figuratively) stupid or silly
יָד
yâd
a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.),
Key Terms in This Verse
בַּיִת bayith
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
Study H1004 →Cross References
It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.
And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. The LORD make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Isra...
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and ...
And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.
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