Proverbs 21:29
Old Testament • 7 words with Strong's data
"A wicked man hardeneth his face: but as for the upright, he directeth his way."
Word-by-Word Analysis
רָשָׁע
râshâʻ
morally wrong; concretely, an (actively) bad person
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)
קָשָׁה
qâshâh
properly, to be dense, i.e. tough or severe (in various applications)
פָּנִים
pânîym
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi...
יָשָׁר
yâshâr
straight (literally or figuratively)
יָשַׁר
yâshar
to be straight or even; figuratively, to be (causatively, to make) right, pleasant, prosperous
דֶּרֶךְ
derek
a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
Key Terms in This Verse
יָשַׁר yâshar
to be straight or even; figuratively, to be (causatively, to make) right, pleasant, prosperous
Study H3474 →קָשָׁה qâshâh
properly, to be dense, i.e. tough or severe (in various applications)
Study H7185 →פָּנִים pânîym
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition (before, etc.)
Study H6440 →דֶּרֶךְ derek
a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
Study H1870 →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
Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you.
The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
Happy is the man that feareth alway: but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief.
I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.
O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!
O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder t...
Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they...
And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD:
He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
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