Proverbs 30:8
Old Testament • 11 words with Strong's data
"Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:"
Word-by-Word Analysis
רָחַק
râchaq
to widen (in any direction), i.e. (intransitively) recede or (transitively) remove (literally or figuratively, of place or relation)
הֶבֶל
hebel
emptiness or vanity; figuratively, something transitory and unsatisfactory; often used as an adverb
שֶׁקֶר
sheqer
an untruth; by implication, a sham (often adverbial)
נָתַן
nâthan
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
לֹא
lôʼ
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
רָעָה
râʻâh
to tend a flock; i.e. pasture it; intransitively, to graze (literally or figuratively); generally to rule; by extension, to associate with (as a frien...
לֶחֶם
lechem
food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it)
יָשָׁר
yâshâr
straight (literally or figuratively)
Key Terms in This Verse
לֶחֶם lechem
food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it)
Study H3899 →רָעָה râʻâh
to tend a flock; i.e. pasture it; intransitively, to graze (literally or figuratively); generally to rule; by extension, to associate with (as a friend)
Study H7462 →הֶבֶל hebel
emptiness or vanity; figuratively, something transitory and unsatisfactory; often used as an adverb
Study H1892 →רָחַק râchaq
to widen (in any direction), i.e. (intransitively) recede or (transitively) remove (literally or figuratively, of place or relation)
Study H7368 →לֹא lôʼ
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
Study H3808 →Cross References
Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Give us day by day our daily bread.
Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.
Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And his allowance was a continual allowance given him of the king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his life.
He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.
And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.
And saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and ...
Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:
Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers’ street, until all the bread in t...
And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.
And for his diet, there was a continual diet given him of the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life.
And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,
None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
And he saith unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto the governor of the feast. And they bare it.
Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
See, for that the LORD hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.
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