Proverbs 23:32

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

At the last it biteth like a serpent, And stingeth like an adder.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אַ֭חֲרִיתוֹ כְּנָחָ֣שׁ יִשָּׁ֑ךְ וּֽכְצִפְעֹנִ֥י יַפְרִֽשׁ׃

Transliteration

Its ʾaḥărîṯô like nāḥāš yiššāḵ, and like ṣip̄ʿōnî yap̄riš.

Grammar Details

*ʾaḥărîṯô*: noun, feminine singular + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - its end/outcome
*nāḥāš*: noun, masculine singular - serpent/snake
*yiššāḵ*: qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - bites
*ṣip̄ʿōnî*: noun, masculine singular - viper/adder
*yap̄riš*: hiphil imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - injects/spreads

Word Meanings

*ʾaḥărîṯô*: its end/its outcome/its aftermath
*nāḥāš yiššāḵ*: serpent bites/snake strikes
*ṣip̄ʿōnî yap̄riš*: viper injects/adder spreads venom/poisonous snake stings

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Referenced Verses

Exod 7:5-6 : 5 And the Egyptians shall know that I am Jehovah, when I stretch forth my hand upon Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them. 6 And Moses and Aaron did so; as Jehovah commanded them, so did they.
Exod 7:12 : 12 For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.
Job 20:16 : 16 He shall suck the poison of asps: The viper's tongue shall slay him.
Prov 5:11 : 11 And thou mourn at thy latter end, When thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
Eccl 10:8 : 8 He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh through a wall, a serpent shall bite him.
Isa 28:3 : 3 The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim shall be trodden under foot:
Isa 28:7-8 : 7 And even these reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they stagger with strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment. 8 For all tables are full of vomit [and] filthiness, [so that there is] no place [clean].
Isa 59:5 : 5 They hatch adders' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth; and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
Jer 5:31 : 31 the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
Jer 8:17 : 17 For, behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which will not be charmed; and they shall bite you, saith Jehovah.
Amos 5:19 : 19 As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
Amos 9:3 : 3 And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and it shall bite them.
Luke 16:25-26 : 25 But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and Lazarus in like manner evil things: but now here he is comforted, and thou art in anguish. 26 And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, that they that would pass from hence to you may not be able, and that none may cross over from thence to us.
Rom 6:21 : 21 What fruit then had ye at that time in the things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

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