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forכִּיthe drinkerסֹבֵאand the gluttonוְזוֹלֵלwill become poor,יִוָּרֵשׁandוּdrowsinessנוּמָהwill clothe themתַּלְבִּישׁin rags.קְרָעִים
Proverbs 23:21
Study it in the app“for the drinker and the glutton will become poor, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Proverbs 23:21, word by word
- the drinkerסֹבֵאsove
drink heavily
Take wine without limit; one always intoxicated.
Where else “sove” appears- and the gluttonזוֹלֵלzolel
be a glutton
To eat and spend without restraint.
Where else “zolel” appears- will become poorיִוָּרֵשׁyivaresh
General meaning: Take possession; dispossess.
Where else “yivaresh” appears- drowsinessנוּמָהnuma
drowsiness
Drowsiness, the heavy sleep of the sluggard or of the drunkard.
Where else “numa” appears- will clothe themתַּלְבִּישׁtalbish
clothe
To put clothes on someone else, sometimes as an honor or a help.
Where else “talbish” appears- in ragsקְרָעִיםkeraim
torn piece, rag
A torn piece of cloth, a rag. From the same root as "tear."
Where else “keraim” appears
The context
20Do not be among drinkers of wine, among gluttons of meat for themselves;
21 · This verse (above)
22Listen to your father who fathered you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.