Proverbs 26:18
Old Testament • 6 words with Strong's data
"As a mad man who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death,"
Word-by-Word Analysis
הָלַל
hâlal
to be clear (orig. of sound, but usually of color); to shine; hence, to make ashow, to boast; and thus to be (clamorously) foolish; to rave; causative...
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)
שָׁפֵל
shâphêl
to depress or sink (expectation figuratively, to humiliate, intransitive or transitive)
זִיקָה
zîyqâh
properly, what leaps forth, i.e. flash of fire, or a burning arrow; also (from the original sense of the root) a bond
חֵץ
chêts
properly, a piercer, i.e. an arrow; by implication, a wound; figuratively, (of God) thunderbolt; the shaft of aspear
מָוֶת
mâveth
death (natural or violent); concretely, the dead, their place or state (hades); figuratively, pestilence, ruin
Key Terms in This Verse
זִיקָה zîyqâh
properly, what leaps forth, i.e. flash of fire, or a burning arrow; also (from the original sense of the root) a bond
Study H2131 →שָׁפֵל shâphêl
to depress or sink (expectation figuratively, to humiliate, intransitive or transitive)
Study H8213 →הָלַל hâlal
to be clear (orig. of sound, but usually of color); to shine; hence, to make ashow, to boast; and thus to be (clamorously) foolish; to rave; causatively, to celebrate; also to stultify
Study H1984 →חֵץ chêts
properly, a piercer, i.e. an arrow; by implication, a wound; figuratively, (of God) thunderbolt; the shaft of aspear
Study H2671 →מָוֶת mâveth
death (natural or violent); concretely, the dead, their place or state (hades); figuratively, pestilence, ruin
Study H4194 →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 that beareth false witness against his neighbour is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.
Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down...
Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:
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