Proverbs 26:27
Old Testament • 8 words with Strong's data
"Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him."
Word-by-Word Analysis
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)
כָּרָה
kârâh
properly, to dig; figuratively, to plot; generally, to bore or open
בּוֹר
bôwr
a pit hole (especially one used as a cistern or a prison)
נָפַל
nâphal
to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
שָׁם
shâm
there (transferring to time) then; often thither, or thence
גָּלַל
gâlal
to roll (literally or figuratively)
שׁוּב
shûwb
to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); ...
Key Terms in This Verse
כָּרָה kârâh
properly, to dig; figuratively, to plot; generally, to bore or open
Study H3738 →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 →נָפַל nâphal
to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
Study H5307 →שׁוּב shûwb
to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); generally to retreat; often adverbial, again
Study H7725 →Cross References
The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good things in possession.
The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.
So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king’s wrath pacified.
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