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Do notאַלlook atתֵּרֶאwineיַיִןwhenכִּיit is red,יִתְאַדָּםwhenכִּיit givesיִתֵּןits sparkleעֵינוֹin the cup,בַּכּוֹסwhen it goes downיִתְהַלֵּךְsmoothly.בְּמֵישָׁרִים
Proverbs 23:31
Study it in the app“Do not look at wine when it is red, when it gives its sparkle in the cup, when it goes down smoothly.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Proverbs 23:31, word by word
- look atתֵּרֶאtere
see
To see with one's eyes.
Where else “tere” appears- wineיַיִןyayin
wine
Wine; also drunkenness.
Where else “yayin” appears- it is redיִתְאַדָּםyitadam
be red
Be red, turn red; of rams' skins, dyed red.
Where else “yitadam” appears- it givesיִתֵּןyiten
give
To hand something over to someone: a gift, a payment, a charge or a land.
Where else “yiten” appears- its sparkleעֵינen
appearance
Literally "the eye": how something looks, its glint.
Where else “en” appears- in the cupכּוֹסkos
cup
A drinking vessel; also the lot that falls to each one to drink, good or bad.
Where else “kos” appears- when it goes downיִתְהַלֵּךְyithalech
go
To move on foot from place to place; to set out.
Where else “yithalech” appears- smoothlyמֵישָׁרִיםmesharim
smoothly
Smoothly, without roughness: the way good wine goes down.
Where else “mesharim” appears
The context
30Those who linger over wine, those who go to search out mixed wine.
31 · This verse (above)
32In the end it bites like a serpent, and like a viper it stings.