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Proverbs 17:28
🇮🇱 BIBLICAL HEBREW

📖 King James Version

Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.

🔤 Interlinear Analysis — Hebrew (BDB)

# Hebrew Transliteration Strong's Morphology Translation Definition
1 גַּ֤ם גַּם H1571 HTa גַּם by contraction from an unused root meaning to gather; properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and: again, alike, also, (so much) as (soon), both (so)...and, but, either...or, even, for all, (in) likewise (manner), moreover, nay...neither, one, then(-refore), though, what, with, yea.
2 אֱוִ֣יל אֱוִיל H191 HAamsa אֱוִיל from an unused root (meaning to be perverse); (figuratively) silly: fool(-ish) (man).
3 מַ֭חֲרִישׁ חָרַשׁ H2790 HVhrmsa חָרַשׁ a primitive root; to scratch, i.e. (by implication) to engrave, plough; hence (from the use of tools) to fabricate (of any material); figuratively, to devise (in a bad sense); hence (from the idea of secrecy) to be silent, to let alone; hence (by implication) to be deaf (as an accompaniment of dumbness): X altogether, cease, conceal, be deaf, devise, ear, graven, imagine, leave off speaking, hold peace, plow(-er, man), be quiet, rest, practise secretly, keep silence, be silent, speak not a word, be still, hold tongue, worker.
4 חָכָ֣ם חָכָם H2450 HAamsa חָכָם from חָכַם; wise, (i.e. intelligent, skilful or artful): cunning (man), subtil, ((un-)), wise((hearted), man).
5 יֵחָשֵׁ֑ב חָשַׁב H2803 HVNi3ms חָשַׁב a primitive root; properly, to plait or interpenetrate, i.e. (literally) to weave or (gen.) to fabricate; figuratively, to plot or contrive (usually in a malicious sense); hence (from the mental effort) to think, regard, value, compute: (make) account (of), conceive, consider, count, cunning (man, work, workman), devise, esteem, find out, forecast, hold, imagine, impute, invent, be like, mean, purpose, reckon(-ing be made), regard, think.
6 אֹטֵ֖ם אָטַם H331 HVqrmsa אָטַם a primitive root; to close (the lips or ears); by analology to contract (a window by bevelled jambs): narrow, shut, stop.
7 שְׂפָתָ֣י/ו שָׂפָה H8193 HNcfdc/Sp3ms שָׂפָה or (in dual and plural) sepheth; probably from סָפָה or שָׁפָה through the idea of termination (compare סוֹף); the lip (as a natural boundary); by implication, language; by analogy, a margin (of a vessel, water, cloth, etc.): band, bank, binding, border, brim, brink, edge, language, lip, prating, ((sea-))shore, side, speech, talk, (vain) words.
8 נָבֽוֹן בִּין H995 HVNrmsa בִּין a primitive root; to separate mentally (or distinguish), i.e.(generally) understand: attend, consider, be cunning, diligently, direct, discern, eloquent, feel, inform, instruct, have intelligence, know, look well to, mark, perceive, be prudent, regard, (can) skill(-full), teach, think, (cause, make to, get, give, have) understand(-ing), view, (deal) wise(-ly, man).