Proverbs 19:15
Old Testament • 8 words with Strong's data
"Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger."
Word-by-Word Analysis
שָׁפֵל
shâphêl
to depress or sink (expectation figuratively, to humiliate, intransitive or transitive)
תְּהוֹם
tᵉhôwm
an abyss (as a surging mass of water), especially the deep (the main sea or the subterranean watersupply)
נֶפֶשׁ
nephesh
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or menta...
נָתַן
nâthan
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
Key Terms in This Verse
שָׁפֵל shâphêl
to depress or sink (expectation figuratively, to humiliate, intransitive or transitive)
Study H8213 →תְּהוֹם tᵉhôwm
an abyss (as a surging mass of water), especially the deep (the main sea or the subterranean watersupply)
Study H8415 →נָתַן nâthan
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
Study H5414 →נֶפֶשׁ nephesh
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
Study H5315 →Cross References
For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
A slothful man hideth his hand in his bosom, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.
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