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The wordsדִּבְרֵיof a grumblerנִרְגָּןare like delicious morsels,כְּמִתְלַהֲמִיםand theyוְהֵםgo downיָרְדוּinto the inner roomsחַדְרֵיof the belly.בָטֶן
Proverbs 18:8
Study it in the app“The words of a grumbler are like delicious morsels, and they go down into the inner rooms of the belly.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Proverbs 18:8, word by word
- The wordsדִּבְרֵיdivre
word
What someone says or announces, above all what YHWH says.
Where else “divre” appears- of a grumblerנִרְגָּןnirgan
gossip, slanderer
A whisperer: one who goes about with gossip and sows discord.
Where else “nirgan” appears- are like delicious morselsמִתְלַהֲמִיםmitlahamim
swallow greedily; delicacy
To swallow greedily; "delicious morsels", what is gulped down eagerly.
Where else “mitlahamim” appears- go downיָרְדוּyardu
go down
To go from a higher place to a lower one, like from the mountain to the valley.
Where else “yardu” appears- into the inner roomsחַדְרֵיchadre
inner room
Inner room, private chamber.
Where else “chadre” appears- of the bellyבָטֶןvaten
belly
The belly; also one's innermost part.
Where else “vaten” appears
The context
7The mouth of the senseless is ruin to him, and his lips a snare to his soul.
8 · This verse (above)
9Also, one who is slack in his work is a brother he to the one who destroys.