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Proverbs 24

Prov. 24:34 KJV (With Strong’s)

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So shall thy poverty
reysh (Hebrew #7389)
or riysh {reesh}; from 7326; poverty
KJV usage: poverty.
Pronounce: raysh
Origin: or resh {raysh}
come
bow' (Hebrew #935)
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
KJV usage: abide, apply, attain, X be, befall, + besiege, bring (forth, in, into, to pass), call, carry, X certainly, (cause, let, thing for) to come (against, in, out, upon, to pass), depart, X doubtless again, + eat, + employ, (cause to) enter (in, into, -tering, -trance, -try), be fallen, fetch, + follow, get, give, go (down, in, to war), grant, + have, X indeed, (in-)vade, lead, lift (up), mention, pull in, put, resort, run (down), send, set, X (well) stricken (in age), X surely, take (in), way.
Pronounce: bo
Origin: a primitive root
as one that travelleth
halak (Hebrew #1980)
a primitive root; to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
KJV usage: (all) along, apace, behave (self), come, (on) continually, be conversant, depart, + be eased, enter, exercise (self), + follow, forth, forward, get, go (about, abroad, along, away, forward, on, out, up and down), + greater, grow, be wont to haunt, lead, march, X more and more, move (self), needs, on, pass (away), be at the point, quite, run (along), + send, speedily, spread, still, surely, + tale-bearer, + travel(-ler), walk (abroad, on, to and fro, up and down, to places), wander, wax, (way-)faring man, X be weak, whirl.
Pronounce: haw-lak'
Origin: akin to 3212
; and thy want
machcowr (Hebrew #4270)
from 2637; deficiency; hence, impoverishment
KJV usage: lack, need, penury, poor, poverty, want.
Pronounce: makh-sore'
Origin: or machcor {makh-sore'}
as βan armed
magen (Hebrew #4043)
from 1598; a shield (i.e. the small one or buckler); figuratively, a protector; also the scaly hide of the crocodile
KJV usage: X armed, buckler, defence, ruler, + scale, shield.
Pronounce: maw-gane'
Origin: also (in plural) feminine mginnah {meg-in-naw'}
man
'iysh (Hebrew #376)
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
KJV usage: also, another, any (man), a certain, + champion, consent, each, every (one), fellow, (foot-, husband-)man, (good-, great, mighty) man, he, high (degree), him (that is), husband, man(-kind), + none, one, people, person, + steward, what (man) soever, whoso(-ever), worthy. Compare 802.
Pronounce: eesh
Origin: contracted for 582 (or perhaps rather from an unused root meaning to be extant)
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β
a man of shield.

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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thy poverty.
Prov. 10:4• 4He cometh to want that dealeth with a slack hand; but the hand of the diligent maketh rich. (Prov. 10:4)
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Prov. 13:4• 4A sluggard's soul desireth and hath nothing; but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat. (Prov. 13:4)
armed man.
Heb. a man of shield.
• With this warning against sloth and laziness, the book, as first set forth, was brought to a close, unless the chapters attributed to Agur and Lemuel were then part of it. If so, the next section was inserted in its present place, by divine guidance we cannot doubt, when the work was issued in its final complete form. (“Proverbs Twenty-Four” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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So shall thy poverty come as a roving plunderera, and thy penury as an armed man.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "a tramp," as ch. 6.11.