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How long,עַד מָתַיsluggard,עָצֵלwill you lie there?תִּשְׁכָּבWhenמָתַיwill you riseתָּקוּםfrom your sleep?מִשְּׁנָתֶךָ
Proverbs 6:9
Study it in the app“How long, sluggard, will you lie there? When will you rise from your sleep?”
With the Hebrew beneath
Proverbs 6:9, word by word
- How longמָתַיmatay
when?
When? How long?
Where else “matay” appears- sluggardעָצֵלatsel
sluggard, lazy
Lazy, sluggish; the sluggard, one who will not work.
Where else “atsel” appears- will you lie thereתִּשְׁכָּבtishkav
lie down
To lie down to sleep or rest.
Where else “tishkav” appears- will you riseתָּקוּםtakum
rise
To go from sitting or lying to standing, or to set out.
Where else “takum” appears- from your sleepשְּׁנָתֶshenate
sleep
Sleep.
Where else “shenate” appears
The context
8prepares in the summer her bread; she gathers at the harvest her food.
9 · This verse (above)
10A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to lie down,