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Evenגַּםa foolאֱוִילwho keeps silentמַחֲרִישׁis consideredיֵחָשֵׁבwise;חָכָםwhoever shutsאֹטֵםhis lips,שְׂפָתָיוdiscerning.נָבוֹן
Proverbs 17:28
Study it in the app“Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; whoever shuts his lips, discerning.”
Even a fool who keeps quiet is thought wiseThe Tongue
With the Hebrew beneath
Proverbs 17:28, word by word
- a foolאֱוִילevil
fool
A fool: one who will not learn or accept correction. It does not speak of a lack of intelligence but of an attitude toward life and toward God.
Where else “evil” appears- who keeps silentמַחֲרִישׁmacharish
be silent
To stay quiet, without answering or speaking.
Where else “macharish” appears- is consideredיֵחָשֵׁבyechashev
count
To hold or give something as so: to put it on someone's account.
Where else “yechashev” appears- wiseחָכָםchacham
wise
Someone who knows how to live well, revering YHWH.
Where else “chacham” appears- whoever shutsאֹטֵםotem
close, shut
Close, stop up (the lips, the ears). Of a window, to be closed or narrowed inward; its exact sense in 1 Kings 6:4 is uncertain.
Where else “otem” appears- his lipsשְׂפָתָיsefatay
lip
The part of the mouth with which one speaks, and so what one says.
Where else “sefatay” appears- discerningנָבוֹןnavon
be skilled
To be very wise and skilled in what one does.
Where else “navon” appears
The context
27Whoever holds back his sayings knows knowledge, and one cool of spirit is a man of insight.
28 · This verse (above)