Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, And its stone wall was broken down.
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Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, And its stone wall was broken down.
And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
And behold, all of it went up thorns, its face was covered weeds, and the wall of its stones was torn down.
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Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, And its stone wall was broken down.
Thorns had grown up everywhere, thistles had covered the ground, and the stone wall was broken down.
Thorns had grown up everywhere, thistles had covered the ground, and the stone wall was broken down.
And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, The face thereof was covered with nettles, And the stone wall thereof was broken down.
And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, the face thereof was covered with nettles, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
And lo, it was al growen ouer with thornes, and nettles had couered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken downe.
And behold it was all filled with nettles, and thorns had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall was broken down.
And lo, it hath gone up -- all of it -- thorns! Covered its face have nettles, And its stone wall hath been broken down.
And behold, it has gone up—all of it—thorns! Nettles have covered its face, || And its stone wall has been broken down.
Thorns had grown up everywhere, the ground was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.
And behold, all of it went up thorns, its face was covered weeds, and the wall of its stones was torn down.
and lo, it was all grown over with thistles, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and its stone wall was broken down.
Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.
And lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face of it, and its stone wall was broken down.
It was all overgrown with thorns, the ground was covered with weeds, and the stone wall had fallen down.
And it was all full of thorns, and covered with waste plants, and its stone wall was broken down.
And, lo, it was all grown over with thistles, the face thereof was covered with nettles, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
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1 hapax legomenon — a word that appears only here in the entire Hebrew Bible:
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וְגֶ֖דֶר wall H1444 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 21 words from the Hebrew and 25 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
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Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 10 Hebrew tokens and 17 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
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וְהִנֵּ֨ה עָ֘לָ֤ה כֻלּ֨וֹ קִמְּשֹׂנִ֗ים כָּסּ֣וּ פָנָ֣יו חֲרֻלִּ֑ים וְגֶ֖דֶר אֲבָנָ֣יו נֶהֱרָֽסָה
Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, And its stone wall was broken down.
World English Bible · Public Domain
ἐάν ἀποἵημι αὐτός χερσεύω καί χορτομανέω ὅλος καί γίγνομαι ἐκλείπω ὁ δέ φραγμός ὁ λίθος αὐτός κατασκάπτω
If you let him alone, he will altogether remain barren and covered with weeds; and he becomes destitute, and his stone walls are broken down.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
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Proverbs, in the Wisdom, opens this verse with 10 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is qimmâshôwn (“thistles”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Proverbs 24:31 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
The Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Paul E. Kretzmann
Paul E. Kretzmann, Popular Commentary of the Bible (1921–1924) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)
Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.