King James Version
Proverbs 30:26 in the King James Version says “The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks;” — study this verse from Proverbs chapter 30 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks;”
Proverbs 30:26 · KJV
There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise: exceeding: Heb. wise, made wise
The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer;
The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks;
The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands; by: Heb. gathered together
The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings' palaces.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“The conies”
H8227a species of rock-rabbit (from its hiding), i.e., probably the hyrax
“folk”
H5971a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
“yet make”
H7760to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
“they their houses”
H1004a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
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