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Proverbs 19:1 Interlinear

“Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity than he that is perverse in his lips and is a fool”

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Proverbs 19 with commentary

Word-by-Word Analysis

#	Original	Strong's	English	Definition
1	טֽוֹב	H2896	Better	good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good
2	רָ֭שׁ	H7326	is the poor	to be destitute
3	הוֹלֵ֣ךְ	H1980	that walketh	to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
4	בְּתֻמּ֑וֹ	H8537	in his integrity	completeness; figuratively, prosperity; usually (morally) innocence
5	מֵעִקֵּ֥שׁ	H6141	than he that is perverse	distorted; hence, false
6	שְׂ֝פָתָ֗יו	H8193	in his lips	the lip (as a natural boundary); by implication, language; by analogy, a margin (of a vessel, water, cloth, etc.)
7	וְה֣וּא	H1931		he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
8	כְסִֽיל׃	H3684	and is a fool	properly, fat, i.e., (figuratively) stupid or silly

Proverbs 19:1 (current)Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity than he that is perverse in his lips and is a fool