Proverbs 26:3
Old Testament • 8 words with Strong's data
"A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool’s back."
Word-by-Word Analysis
סוּס
çûwç
a horse (as leaping); also a swallow (from its rapid flight)
רֶסֶן
reçen
a halter (as restraining); by implication, the jaw
מַטֶּה
maṭṭeh
a branch (as extending); figuratively, a tribe; also a rod, whether for chastising (figuratively, correction), ruling (a sceptre), throwing (a lance),...
כְּסִיל
kᵉçîyl
properly, fat, i.e. (figuratively) stupid or silly
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
מַטֶּה maṭṭeh
a branch (as extending); figuratively, a tribe; also a rod, whether for chastising (figuratively, correction), ruling (a sceptre), throwing (a lance), or walking (a staff; figuratively, a support of l...
Study H4294 →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
In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.
What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?
Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.
Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.
A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.
And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge.
I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare...
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