Proverbs 30:22
Old Testament • 5 words with Strong's data
"For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;"
Word-by-Word Analysis
מָלַךְ
mâlak
to reign; inceptively, to ascend the throne; causatively, to induct into royalty; hence (by implication) to take counsel
כְּסִיל
kᵉçîyl
properly, fat, i.e. (figuratively) stupid or silly
מָלֵא
mâlêʼ
to fill or (intransitively) be full of, in a wide application (literally and figuratively)
Key Terms in This Verse
מָלַךְ mâlak
to reign; inceptively, to ascend the throne; causatively, to induct into royalty; hence (by implication) to take counsel
Study H4427 →מָלֵא mâlêʼ
to fill or (intransitively) be full of, in a wide application (literally and figuratively)
Study H4390 →Cross References
Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.
I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.
Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail: and she was a woman of good understanding, and of a beautiful countenance: but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he ...
And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad upon all the earth, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philis...
Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, even Nabal: for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: but I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom...
A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.
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