Proverbs 19:21
Old Testament • 9 words with Strong's data
"There are many devices in a man’s heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand."
Word-by-Word Analysis
רַב
rab
abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality)
מַחֲשָׁבָה
machăshâbâh
a contrivance, i.e. (concretely) a texture, machine, or (abstractly) intention, plan (whether bad, a plot; or good, advice)
אִישׁ
ʼîysh
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
לֵב
lêb
the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything
אַךְ
ʼak
a particle of affirmation, surely; hence (by limitation) only
עֵצָה
ʻêtsâh
advice; by implication, plan; also prudence
יְהֹוָה
Yᵉhôvâh
Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
עָמַד
ʻâmad
to stand, in various relations (literal and figurative, intransitive and transitive)
Key Terms in This Verse
מַחֲשָׁבָה machăshâbâh
a contrivance, i.e. (concretely) a texture, machine, or (abstractly) intention, plan (whether bad, a plot; or good, advice)
Study H4284 →אַךְ ʼak
a particle of affirmation, surely; hence (by limitation) only
Study H389 →עָמַד ʻâmad
to stand, in various relations (literal and figurative, intransitive and transitive)
Study H5975 →לֵב lêb
the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything
Study H3820 →אִישׁ ʼîysh
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
Study H376 →Cross References
A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.
The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:
The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD.
Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.
In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:
But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.
The king’s heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.
And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto h...
For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.
Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.
But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our...
A good man obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.
But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on t...
They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
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