The Meaning of Proverbs 31:30 Explained

Proverbs 31:30

KJV: Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.

YLT: The grace is false, and the beauty is vain, A woman fearing Jehovah, she may boast herself.

Darby: Gracefulness is deceitful and beauty is vain; a woman that feareth Jehovah, she shall be praised.

ASV: Grace is deceitful, and beauty is vain; But a woman that feareth Jehovah, she shall be praised.

Discover Proverbs 31:30

CONTEXT: What is the Context of Proverbs 31:30?

MEANING: What does Proverbs 31:30 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Proverbs 31:30 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Proverbs 31:30?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Favour  [is] deceitful,  and beauty  [is] vain:  [but] a woman  [that] feareth  the LORD,  she shall be praised. 

What does Proverbs 31:30 Mean?

Study Notes

feareth
fear of the Lord
The "fear of the Lord," a phrase of the O.T. piety, meaning reverential trust, with hatred of evil.

Context Summary

Proverbs 31:10-31 - "her Works Praise Her"
The ideal woman, as portrayed here, is a wife. She is the stay and confidence of her husband. Not only when she comes as a young bride into his home, in the glory and beauty of her youth, nor only when her womanly beauty holds his admiration, but long after and to the end of life she does him good. She is always busy. She is thrifty in administering his earnings. If he brings the money to her, she expends it economically for their common weal. When a friend of mine was sixty, his wife came to him with an annuity which she had purchased for them both, by her wise administration of the money entrusted to her through forty years of married life.
It is in the home-place that the man's strength is gathered for public life. The woman in the home communicates the inspiration and strength which make him "known in the gates." Her secret, unobtrusive loyalty, counsel, and thrift inspire a growing depth of appreciation; so that the man who chose her in the spring will say of her amid the snows of age, "Other women may be good and true, but "˜thou excellest them all.'" [source]

Chapter Summary: Proverbs 31

1  Lemuel's lesson of chastity and temperance
6  The afflicted are to be comforted and defended
10  The praise and properties of a good wife

What do the individual words in Proverbs 31:30 mean?

Deceitful Charm [is] and passing beauty [is] but a woman [who] fears Yahweh she shall be praised
שֶׁ֣קֶר הַ֭חֵן וְהֶ֣בֶל הַיֹּ֑פִי אִשָּׁ֥ה יִרְאַת־ יְ֝הוָ֗ה הִ֣יא תִתְהַלָּֽל

שֶׁ֣קֶר  Deceitful 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: שֶׁקֶר  
Sense: lie, deception, disappointment, falsehood.
הַ֭חֵן  Charm  [is] 
Parse: Article, Noun, masculine singular
Root: חֵן  
Sense: favour, grace, charm.
וְהֶ֣בֶל  and  passing 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, masculine singular
Root: הֶבֶל  
Sense: vapour, breath.
הַיֹּ֑פִי  beauty  [is] 
Parse: Article, Noun, masculine singular
Root: יֳפִי  
Sense: beauty.
אִשָּׁ֥ה  but  a  woman 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular
Root: אִשָּׁה  
Sense: woman, wife, female.
יִרְאַת־  [who]  fears 
Parse: Adjective, feminine singular construct
Root: יָרֵא  
Sense: fearing, reverent, afraid.
יְ֝הוָ֗ה  Yahweh 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: יהוה 
Sense: Jehovah—used primarily in the combination ‘Lord Jehovah’.
הִ֣יא  she 
Parse: Pronoun, third person feminine singular
Root: הוּא 
Sense: he, she, it.
תִתְהַלָּֽל  shall  be  praised 
Parse: Verb, Hitpael, Imperfect, third person feminine singular
Root: הָלַל 
Sense: to shine.

What are the major concepts related to Proverbs 31:30?

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