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Proverbs 30

Prov. 30:26 KJV (With Strong’s)

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The conies
shaphan (Hebrew #8227)
a species of rock-rabbit (from its hiding), i.e. probably the hyrax
KJV usage: coney.
Pronounce: shaw-fawn'
Origin: from 8226
are but a feeble
`atsuwm (Hebrew #6099)
passive participle of 6105; powerful (specifically, a paw); by implication, numerous
KJV usage: + feeble, great, mighty, must, strong.
Pronounce: aw-tsoom'
Origin: or matsum {aw-tsoom'}
folk
`am (Hebrew #5971)
a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
KJV usage: folk, men, nation, people.
Pronounce: am
Origin: from 6004
b, yet make
suwm (Hebrew #7760)
a primitive root; to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
KJV usage: X any wise, appoint, bring, call (a name), care, cast in, change, charge, commit, consider, convey, determine, + disguise, dispose, do, get, give, heap up, hold, impute, lay (down, up), leave, look, make (out), mark, + name, X on, ordain, order, + paint, place, preserve, purpose, put (on), + regard, rehearse, reward, (cause to) set (on, up), shew, + stedfastly, take, X tell, + tread down, ((over-))turn, X wholly, work.
Pronounce: soom
Origin: or siym {seem}
they their houses
bayith (Hebrew #1004)
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
KJV usage: court, daughter, door, + dungeon, family, + forth of, X great as would contain, hangings, home(born), (winter)house(-hold), inside(-ward), palace, place, + prison, + steward, + tablet, temple, web, + within(-out).
Pronounce: bah'-yith
Origin: probably from 1129 abbreviated
in the rocks
cela` (Hebrew #5553)
a craggy rock, literally or figuratively (a fortress)
KJV usage: (ragged) rock, stone(-ny), strong hold.
Pronounce: seh'-lah
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be lofty
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Psa. 104:18• 18The high mountains are for the wild goats; the cliffs, a refuge for the rock-badgers. (Psa. 104:18)

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coney, Shaphan,
House

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Lev. 11:5• 5and the rock-badger, for it cheweth the cud, but hath not cloven hoofs--it shall be unclean unto you; (Lev. 11:5)
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Psa. 104:18• 18The high mountains are for the wild goats; the cliffs, a refuge for the rock-badgers. (Psa. 104:18)
• Properly speaking, the little animal of the 26th verse is not a coney at all, but a very timid defenseless creature of the marmot type, known to naturalists as the Syrian hyrax. The true coney belongs to the rabbit family, and does not seek a habitation in the rocks. But the hyrax does. (“Proverbs Thirty” by H.A. Ironside)
• From the structure of its feet, which are round, and of a soft, pulpy, tender substance, it cannot dig, and hence is not fitted to live in burrows like the rabbit, but in the clefts of the rocks. (“Proverbs Thirty” by H.A. Ironside)
• In the Hebrew it is called Shaphan, and is included in the lists of unclean animals in Leviticus 11:5 and Deuteronomy 14:7, because, though its jaws work with a cud-chewing motion, it does not divide the hoof. (“Proverbs Thirty” by H.A. Ironside)
• Surely the picture is plain. “That Rock was Christ,” says the apostle, when writing of the rock from which flowed the living water in the wilderness. Here too the rock speaks of Him; for He alone is the sinner’s refuge. The little unclean hyrax, weak and feeble, flees to the rocks and is safe. (“Proverbs Thirty” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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the rock-badgersb are but a feeble folk, yet they make their house in the cliff;

JND Translation Notes

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See Lev. 11.5; Ps. 104.18.