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Whoever plundersמְשַׁדֶּדa fatherאָבand drives awayיַבְרִיחַa motherאֵםis a sonבֵּןwho brings shameמֵבִישׁand brings reproach.וּמַחְפִּיר
Proverbs 19:26
Study it in the app“Whoever plunders a father and drives away a mother is a son who brings shame and brings reproach.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Proverbs 19:26, word by word
- Whoever plundersמְשַׁדֶּדmeshaded
destroyer
The one who ruins and loots.
Where else “meshaded” appears- a fatherאָבav
father
The man who begets a child and heads his household.
Where else “av” appears- and drives awayיַבְרִיחַyavriach
drive away
To make someone flee.
Where else “yavriach” appears- a motherאֵםem
mother
The woman who gives birth to and raises her children, and who is owed honor.
Where else “em” appears- is a sonבֵּןben
son
The male born of a father and mother; in the plural, also sons and daughters.
Where else “ben” appears- who brings shameמֵבִישׁmevish
be ashamed
To feel disgrace and distress over something bad one did or that befell him.
Where else “mevish” appears- and brings reproachמַחְפִּירmachpir
be ashamed, be disappointed
To blush, to be embarrassed or disappointed, to feel shame over something that went wrong.
Where else “machpir” appears
The context
25Strike a scoffer, and the simple will become shrewd; and reprove the discerning, and he will understand knowledge.
26 · This verse (above)
27Stop, my son, listening to correction only to stray from the sayings of knowledge.