Proverbs 30:14
Old Testament • 13 words with Strong's data
"There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men."
Word-by-Word Analysis
דּוֹר
dôwr
properly, a revolution of time, i.e. an age or generation; also a dwelling
אֲשֶׁר
ʼăsher
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.
שֵׁן
shên
a tooth (as sharp); specifically ivory; figuratively, a cliff
חֶרֶב
chereb
drought; also a cutting instrument (from its destructive effect), as a knife, sword, or other sharp implement
לְחִי
lᵉchîy
the cheek (from its fleshiness); hence, the jaw-bone
שֵׁן
shên
a tooth (as sharp); specifically ivory; figuratively, a cliff
מַחֲלָף
machălâph
a (sacrificial) knife (as gliding through the flesh)
עָנִי
ʻânîy
depressed, in mind or circumstances
אֶרֶץ
ʼerets
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
תָּוֶךְ
tâvek
a bisection, i.e. (by implication) the centre
אֱנוֹשׁ
ʼĕnôwsh
a man in general (singly or collectively)
Key Terms in This Verse
חֶרֶב chereb
drought; also a cutting instrument (from its destructive effect), as a knife, sword, or other sharp implement
Study H2719 →דּוֹר dôwr
properly, a revolution of time, i.e. an age or generation; also a dwelling
Study H1755 →אֲשֶׁר ʼăsher
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.
Study H834 →Cross References
My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was ...
Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.
For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.
The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.
Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly.
He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.
But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.
Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name:
Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
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