The Meaning of Proverbs 7:23 Explained

Proverbs 7:23

KJV: Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.

YLT: Till an arrow doth split his liver, As a bird hath hastened unto a snare, And hath not known that it is for its life.

Darby: till an arrow strike through his liver: as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for its life.

ASV: Till an arrow strike through his liver; As a bird hasteth to the snare, And knoweth not that it is for his life.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Till a dart  strike  through his liver;  as a bird  hasteth  to the snare,  and knoweth  not that it [is] for his life. 

What does Proverbs 7:23 Mean?

Chapter Summary: Proverbs 7

1  Solomon persuades to a sincere and kind familiarity with wisdom
6  In an example of his own experience he shows
10  the cunning of a harlot
22  and the desperate simplicity of a young wanton
24  He detests such wickedness

What do the individual words in Proverbs 7:23 mean?

Till struck an arrow his liver as hastens a bird to the snare and not He did know that his life it [would cost] -
עַ֤ד יְפַלַּ֪ח חֵ֡ץ כְּֽבֵד֗וֹ כְּמַהֵ֣ר צִפּ֣וֹר אֶל־ פָּ֑ח וְלֹֽא־ יָ֝דַ֗ע כִּֽי־ בְנַפְשׁ֥וֹ הֽוּא פ

עַ֤ד  Till 
Parse: Preposition
Root: עַד  
Sense: as far as, even to, until, up to, while, as far as.
יְפַלַּ֪ח  struck 
Parse: Verb, Piel, Imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: פָּלַח  
Sense: to cleave, slice.
חֵ֡ץ  an  arrow 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: חֵץ  
Sense: arrow.
כְּֽבֵד֗וֹ  his  liver 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct, third person masculine singular
Root: כָּבֵד  
Sense: the liver.
כְּמַהֵ֣ר  as  hastens 
Parse: Preposition-k, Verb, Piel, Infinitive construct
Root: מָהַר  
Sense: (Qal) to hasten.
צִפּ֣וֹר  a  bird 
Parse: Noun, common singular
Root: צִפֹּור  
Sense: bird, fowl.
פָּ֑ח  the  snare 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: פַּח 
Sense: bird trap, trap, snare.
וְלֹֽא־  and  not 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Adverb, Negative particle
Root: הֲלֹא 
Sense: not, no.
יָ֝דַ֗ע  He  did  know 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Perfect, third person masculine singular
Root: דָּעָה 
Sense: to know.
כִּֽי־  that 
Parse: Conjunction
Root: כִּי 
Sense: that, for, because, when, as though, as, because that, but, then, certainly, except, surely, since.
בְנַפְשׁ֥וֹ  his  life 
Parse: Preposition-b, Noun, feminine singular construct, third person masculine singular
Root: נֶפֶשׁ  
Sense: soul, self, life, creature, person, appetite, mind, living being, desire, emotion, passion.
הֽוּא  it  [would  cost] 
Parse: Pronoun, third person masculine singular
Root: הוּא 
Sense: he, she, it.
פ  - 
Parse: Punctuation

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