Proverbs 29:24

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul: he heareth cursing, and bewrayeth it not.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

חוֹלֵ֣ק עִם־גַּ֭נָּב שׂוֹנֵ֣א נַּפְשׁ֑וֹ אָלָ֥ה יִ֝שְׁמַ֗ע וְלֹ֣א יַגִּֽיד׃

Transliteration

ḥôlēq ʿim-gannāḇ śônēʾ napšô ʾālāh yišmaʿ wə-lōʾ yaggîd

Grammar Details

• *ḥôlēq*: qal participle, masculine singular - dividing/sharing
• *ʿim*: preposition - with
• *gannāḇ*: noun, masculine singular - thief
• *śônēʾ*: qal participle, masculine singular - hating
• *napšô*: noun, feminine singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - his soul/himself
• *ʾālāh*: noun, feminine singular - oath/curse
• *yišmaʿ*: qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - hears
• *wə*: conjunction - and
• *lōʾ*: negative particle - not
• *yaggîd*: hiphil imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - tells/reports

Word Meanings

• *ḥôlēq ʿim-gannāḇ*: shares with thief/partner with thief
• *śônēʾ napšô*: hates his own soul/hates himself
• *ʾālāh yišmaʿ*: hears an oath/hears a curse/hears adjuration
• *wə-lōʾ yaggîd*: and does not tell/yet does not report/but will not disclose

Referenced Verses

• Lev 5:1 : 1 And if a soul sin, and hear the voice of swearing, and is a witness, whether he hath seen or known of it; if he do not utter it, then he shall bear his iniquity.
• Prov 8:36 : 36 But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
• Prov 15:32 : 32 He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul: but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding.
• Isa 1:23 : 23 Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
• Mark 11:17 : 17 And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves.
• Ps 50:18-22 : 18 When thou sawest{H8804)} a thief, then thou consentedst{H8799)} with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers{H8764)}. 19 Thou givest{H8804)} thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth{H8686)} deceit. 20 Thou sittest{H8799)} and speakest{H8762)} against thy brother; thou{H8799)} slanderest thine own mother's son. 21 These things hast thou done{H8804)}, and I kept silence{H8689)}; thou thoughtest{H8765)} that I was altogether{H8800)} such an one as thyself: but I will reprove{H8686)} thee, and set them in order{H8799)} before thine eyes. 22 Now consider{H8798)} this, ye that forget{H8802)} God, lest I tear you in pieces{H8799)}, and there be none to deliver{H8688)}.
• Prov 1:11-19 : 11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: 12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: 13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil: 14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse: 15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path: 16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. 17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. 18 And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives. 19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
• Prov 6:32 : 32 But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
• Judg 17:2 : 2 And he said unto his mother, The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from thee, about which thou cursedst, and spakest of also in mine ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it. And his mother said, Blessed be thou of the LORD, my son.
• Prov 20:2 : 2 The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.