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Will you make your eyes flyהֲתָעִיף עֵינֶיךָto it?בּוֹIt is gone!וְאֵינֶנּוּForכִּיit surely makesעָשֹׂה יַעֲשֶׂהitselfלּוֹwings;כְנָפַיִםlike an eagleכְּנֶשֶׁרit fliesיָעוּףto the heavens.הַשָּׁמָיִם
Proverbs 23:5
Study it in the app“Will you make your eyes fly to it? It is gone! For it surely makes itself wings; like an eagle it flies to the heavens.”
Don't wear yourself out to get rich: wealth grows wings and flies offGenerosity and Money
With the Hebrew beneath
Proverbs 23:5, word by word
- Will you make your eyes flyתָעִיףtaif
fly
To move through the air with wings, like birds and seraphim.
Where else “taif” appears- Will you make your eyes flyעֵינֶיene
eye
The organ with which one sees; so "lift the eyes" means to look.
Where else “ene” appears- it surely makesעָשֹׂהaso
make
To build or create something.
Where else “aso” appears- wingsכְנָפַיִםchenafayim
wing
A bird's wing; shelter under God's wings.
Where else “chenafayim” appears- like an eagleנֶשֶׁרnesher
eagle, vulture
Eagle; it may also refer to another large bird of prey, such as the vulture.
Where else “nesher” appears- to the heavensשָּׁמָיִםshamayim
sky
The high space seen above the earth, where the birds, clouds, sun and stars are.
Where else “shamayim” appears
The context
4Do not wear yourself out to get rich; from your own understanding desist.
5 · This verse (above)
6Do not eat the bread of the evil of eye, and do not crave his delicacies;