Proverbs 30:16
Old Testament • 9 words with Strong's data
"The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough."
Word-by-Word Analysis
שְׁאוֹל
shᵉʼôwl
Hades or the world of the dead (as if a subterranean retreat), including its accessories and inmates
עָקָר
ʻâqâr
sterile (as if extirpated in the generative organs)
אֶרֶץ
ʼerets
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
מָלֵא
mâlêʼ
to fill or (intransitively) be full of, in a wide application (literally and figuratively)
מַיִם
mayim
water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen
אָמַר
ʼâmar
to say (used with great latitude)
דַּי
day
enough (as noun or adverb), used chiefly with preposition in phrases
Key Terms in This Verse
דַּי day
enough (as noun or adverb), used chiefly with preposition in phrases
Study H1767 →שְׁאוֹל shᵉʼôwl
Hades or the world of the dead (as if a subterranean retreat), including its accessories and inmates
Study H7585 →מָלֵא mâlêʼ
to fill or (intransitively) be full of, in a wide application (literally and figuratively)
Study H4390 →Cross References
Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, ...
And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.
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