Proverbs 15:25
Old Testament • 7 words with Strong's data
"The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow."
Word-by-Word Analysis
יְהֹוָה
Yᵉhôvâh
Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
שָׁחַת
shâchath
to decay, i.e. (causatively) ruin (literally or figuratively)
בַּיִת
bayith
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
קוּם
qûwm
to rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative)
גְּבוּל
gᵉbûwl
properly, a cord (as twisted), i.e. (by implication) a boundary; by extension the territory inclosed
אַלְמָנָה
ʼalmânâh
a widow; also a desolate place
Key Terms in This Verse
קוּם qûwm
to rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative)
Study H6965 →גְּבוּל gᵉbûwl
properly, a cord (as twisted), i.e. (by implication) a boundary; by extension the territory inclosed
Study H1366 →שָׁחַת shâchath
to decay, i.e. (causatively) ruin (literally or figuratively)
Study H7843 →בַּיִת bayith
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
Study H1004 →Cross References
The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.
The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:
For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
Though the LORD be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: but the proud he knoweth afar off.
Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.
Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour’s landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.
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