Proverbs 17:21
Old Testament • 7 words with Strong's data
"He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy."
Word-by-Word Analysis
יָלַד
yâlad
to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage
כְּסִיל
kᵉçîyl
properly, fat, i.e. (figuratively) stupid or silly
עָשָׂה
ʻâsâh
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
אָב
ʼâb
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
כְּסִיל
kᵉçîyl
properly, fat, i.e. (figuratively) stupid or silly
שִׂמְחָה
simchâh
blithesomeness or glee, (religious or festival)
Key Terms in This Verse
יָלַד yâlad
to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage
Study H3205 →אָב ʼâb
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
Study H1 →Cross References
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.
A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.
And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:
And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my so...
And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.
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