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Whoever rebukesמוֹכִיחַa manאָדָםwill afterwardאַחֲרַיfindיִמְצָאfavorחֵןmore than one who makesמִמַּחֲלִיקthe tongue smooth.לָשׁוֹן
Proverbs 28:23
Study it in the app“Whoever rebukes a man will afterward find favor more than one who makes the tongue smooth.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Proverbs 28:23, word by word
- Whoever rebukesמוֹכִיחַmochiach
rebuke
To point out someone's fault so that he corrects it.
Where else “mochiach” appears- a manאָדָםadam
anyone
A person; with "not", no one.
Where else “adam” appears- findיִמְצָאyimtsa
find favor
To find favor: to be well regarded by someone with power to give.
Where else “yimtsa” appears- favorחֵןchen
favor
Someone's goodwill toward another: looking on them kindly.
Where else “chen” appears- more than one who makesמַּחֲלִיקmachalik
flatter
Another word spelled the same: to be slippery, flatter falsely.
Where else “machalik” appears- the tongue smoothלָשׁוֹןlashon
tongue
The organ in the mouth used to taste and speak; hence, what one says.
Where else “lashon” appears
The context
22A man evil of eye hurries after wealth, and does not know that want will come upon him.
23 · This verse (above)
24Whoever robs his father and his mother and says, “It is no transgression,” he is a companion of a man who destroys.