Proverbs 12:25

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Heaviness in the heart of a man maketh it stoop; But a good word maketh it glad.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

דְּאָגָ֣ה בְלֶב־אִ֣ישׁ יַשְׁחֶ֑נָּה וְדָבָ֖ר ט֣וֹב יְשַׂמְּחֶֽנָּה׃

Transliteration

dəʾāḡāh ḇəleḇ-ʾîš yašḥennāh wəḏāḇār ṭôḇ yəśamməḥennāh

Grammar Details

• *dəʾāḡāh*: noun, feminine singular - anxiety/worry
• *ḇəleḇ*: preposition + noun, masculine singular construct - in heart of
• *ʾîš*: noun, masculine singular - man
• *yašḥennāh*: verb, hiphil imperfect, 3rd masculine singular + 3rd feminine singular suffix - will depress it
• *wəḏāḇār*: conjunction + noun, masculine singular - and word
• *ṭôḇ*: adjective, masculine singular - good
• *yəśamməḥennāh*: verb, piel imperfect, 3rd masculine singular + 3rd feminine singular suffix - will make it glad

Word Meanings

• *dəʾāḡāh*: anxiety/worry/heaviness/fear
• *lēḇ*: heart/mind/inner being
• *yašḥennāh*: will depress it/weighs it down/makes it stoop
• *dāḇār*: word/thing/matter
• *ṭôḇ*: good/pleasant/kind
• *yəśamməḥennāh*: will make it glad/will cheer it/will rejoice it

Referenced Verses

• Prov 15:13 : 13 A glad heart maketh a cheerful countenance; But by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken.
• Isa 50:4 : 4 The Lord Jehovah hath given me the tongue of them that are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as they that are taught.
• Prov 15:23 : 23 A man hath joy in the answer of his mouth; And a word in due season, how good is it!
• Prov 16:24 : 24 Pleasant words are [as] a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
• Prov 17:22 : 22 A cheerful heart is a good medicine; But a broken spirit drieth up the bones.
• Prov 12:18 : 18 There is that speaketh rashly like the piercings of a sword; But the tongue of the wise is health.
• Prov 14:10 : 10 The heart knoweth its own bitterness; And a stranger doth not intermeddle with its joy.
• Ps 38:6 : 6 I am pained and bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
• Ps 42:11 : 11 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? And why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God; For I shall yet praise him, [Who is] the help of my countenance, and my God.
• Prov 18:14 : 14 The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; But a broken spirit who can bear?
• Prov 25:11 : 11 A word fitly spoken Is [like] apples of gold in network of silver.
• Prov 27:9 : 9 Oil and perfume rejoice the heart; So doth the sweetness of a man's friend [that cometh] of hearty counsel.
• Zech 1:13 : 13 And Jehovah answered the angel that talked with me with good words, [even] comfortable words.
• Prov 15:15 : 15 All the days of the afflicted are evil; But he that is of a cheerful heart [hath] a continual feast.
• 2 Cor 2:4-7 : 4 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be made sorry, but that ye might know the love that I have more abundantly unto you. 5 But if any hath caused sorrow, he hath caused sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I press not too heavily) to you all. 6 Sufficient to such a one is this punishment which was [inflicted] by the many; 7 so that contrariwise ye should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his overmuch sorrow.
• Neh 2:1-2 : 1 And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, when wine was before him, that I took up the wine, and gave it unto the king. Now I had not been [beforetime] sad in his presence. 2 And the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid.
• Mark 14:33-34 : 33 And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be greatly amazed, and sore troubled. 34 And he saith unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful even unto death: abide ye here, and watch.