Proverbs 27:4
Old Testament • 8 words with Strong's data
"Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?"
Word-by-Word Analysis
אַף
ʼaph
properly, the nose or nostril; hence, the face, and occasionally a person; also (from the rapid breathing in passion) ire
קָשֶׁה
qâsheh
severe (in various applications)
אַף
ʼaph
properly, the nose or nostril; hence, the face, and occasionally a person; also (from the rapid breathing in passion) ire
שֶׁטֶף
sheṭeph
a deluge (literally or figuratively)
יָכֹל
yâkôl
to be able, literally (can, could) or morally (may, might)
עָמַד
ʻâmad
to stand, in various relations (literal and figurative, intransitive and transitive)
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...
Key Terms in This Verse
אַף ʼaph
properly, the nose or nostril; hence, the face, and occasionally a person; also (from the rapid breathing in passion) ire
Study H639 →אַף ʼaph
properly, the nose or nostril; hence, the face, and occasionally a person; also (from the rapid breathing in passion) ire
Study H639 →עָמַד ʻâmad
to stand, in various relations (literal and figurative, intransitive and transitive)
Study H5975 →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 →Cross References
For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,
For he knew that for envy they had delivered him.
For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, an...
And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.
For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.
Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him, (which is the sect of the Sadducees,) and were filled with indignation,
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