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Proverbs 17:16
🇮🇱 BIBLICAL HEBREW

📖 King James Version

Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it?

🔤 Interlinear Analysis — Hebrew (BDB)

# Hebrew Transliteration Strong's Morphology Translation Definition
1 לָ/מָּה מָה H4100 HR/Ti מָה or mah; or ma; or ma; also meh; a primitive particle; properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even relatively, that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjunctive senses: how (long, oft, (- soever)), (no-)thing, what (end, good, purpose, thing), whereby(-fore, -in, -to, -with), (for) why.
2 זֶּ֣ה זֶה H2088 HPdxms זֶה a primitive word; the masculine demonstrative pronoun, this or that: he, X hence, X here, it(-self), X now, X of him, the one...the other, X than the other, (X out of) the (self) same, such (a one) that, these, this (hath, man), on this side...on that side, X thus, very, which. Compare זֹאת, זוֹ, זוֹ, זוּ.
3 מְחִ֣יר מְחִיר H4242 HNcmsa מְחִיר from an unused root meaning to buy; price, payment, wages: gain, hire, price, sold, worth.
4 בְּ/יַד יָד H3027 HR/Ncbsc יָד a primitive word; a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.), in distinction from כָּף, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great variety of applications, both literally and figuratively, both proximate and remote (as follows): (+ be) able, X about, + armholes, at, axletree, because of, beside, border, X bounty, + broad, (broken-)handed, X by, charge, coast, + consecrate, + creditor, custody, debt, dominion, X enough, + fellowship, force, X from, hand(-staves, -y work), X he, himself, X in, labour, + large, ledge, (left-)handed, means, X mine, ministry, near, X of, X order, ordinance, X our, parts, pain, power, X presumptuously, service, side, sore, state, stay, draw with strength, stroke, + swear, terror, X thee, X by them, X themselves, X thine own, X thou, through, X throwing, + thumb, times, X to, X under, X us, X wait on, (way-)side, where, + wide, X with (him, me, you), work, + yield, X yourselves.
5 כְּסִ֑יל כְּסִיל H3684 HAamsa כְּסִיל from כָּסַל; properly, fat, i.e. (figuratively) stupid or silly: fool(-ish).
6 לִ/קְנ֖וֹת קָנָה H7069 HR/Vqc קָנָה a primitive root; to erect, i.e. create; by extension, to procure, especially by purchase (causatively, sell); by implication to own: attain, buy(-er), teach to keep cattle, get, provoke to jealousy, possess(-or), purchase, recover, redeem, X surely, X verily.
7 חָכְמָ֣ה חָכְמָה H2451 HNcfsa חָכְמָה from חָכַם; wisdom (in a good sense): skilful, wisdom, wisely, wit.
8 וְ/לֶב לֵב H3820 HC/Ncmsc לֵב a form of לֵבָב; the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything: + care for, comfortably, consent, X considered, courag(-eous), friend(-ly), ((broken-), (hard-), (merry-), (stiff-), (stout-), double) heart((-ed)), X heed, X I, kindly, midst, mind(-ed), X regard((-ed)), X themselves, X unawares, understanding, X well, willingly, wisdom.
9 אָֽיִן אַ֫יִן H369 HTn אַ֫יִן as if from a primitive root meaning to be nothing or not exist; a non-entity; generally used as a negative particle: else, except, fail, (father-)less, be gone, in(-curable), neither, never, no (where), none, nor, (any, thing), not, nothing, to nought, past, un(-searchable), well-nigh, without. Compare מֵאַ֫יִן.