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Proverbs 24:33

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Proverbs 24:33 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
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Proverbs 24:33 (World English Bible). Public Domain. Lemma interlinear Bible study tool, https://lemma.gebible.app/v/proverbs/24/33.

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A little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep;
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    A little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep;
  • King James Version Public Domain
    Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to lie down,

unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    A little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep;
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,
  • King James Version Public Domain
    Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    `Yet' a little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep;
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    Yet a litle sleepe, a litle slumber, a litle folding of the handes to sleepe.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    Thou wilt sleep a little, said I, thou wilt slumber a little, thou wilt fold thy hands a little to rest:
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    A little sleep -- a little slumber -- A little folding of the hands to lie down.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    A little sleep—a little slumber—A little folding of the hands to lie down.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest—
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to lie down,
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    -- A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest!
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep,
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    You may say, “Please, just a little more sleep, a little longer snooze, a little more folding of the arms to rest”—
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep:
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    'Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep' —

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6
distinct lemmas
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Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is חִבֻּ֖ק folding H2264 — appearing just 2 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

חִבֻּ֖ק folding H2264 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 1 verb
  • 7 nouns

Verb forms

  • לִשְׁכָּֽב Qal · Infinitive Construct

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • מְעַ֣ט few H4592 ×3

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 14 words from the Hebrew and 24 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the Septuagint runs noticeably longer here. See the side-by-side →

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

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 8 Hebrew tokens and 10 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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Topical passages linked to Proverbs 24:33 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Proverbs 6:4–11 Give no sleep to your eyes, Nor slumber to your eyelids.
  • 1 Thessalonians 5:6–8 so then let's not sleep, as the rest do, but let's watch and be sober.
  • Romans 13:11 Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.
  • Ephesians 5:14 Therefore he says, "Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

Here the Septuagint runs noticeably longer than the Hebrew — LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) 24 words vs World English Bible 14. A rough length comparison of the two English translations, not a word-level alignment — read both below.

These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew Proverbs 24:33 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

מְעַ֣ט שֵׁ֭נוֹת מְעַ֣ט תְּנוּמ֑וֹת מְעַ֓ט חִבֻּ֖ק יָדַ֣יִם לִשְׁכָּֽב

A little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep;

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Proverbs 24:33 Septuagint · lemma form

ὀλίγος νυστάζω ὀλίγος δέ καταὑπνόω ὀλίγος δέ ἐνἀγκαλίζομαι χείρ στῆθος

The sluggard says, I slumber a little, and I sleep a little, and for a little while I fold my arms across my breast.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

On this verse, Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Commentary

Notes on Proverbs 24:33 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

Pro 24:33 [Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

Ver. 33. Yet a little sleep.] Mercer makes this to be the lesson that the wise man both learnt himself and also lays before others - viz., to be content with a little sleep - to be up and at it early, &c., that the beggar catch us not. But I rather incline to those that think that he here brings in the sluggard pleading for his sloth, and by an elegant mimesis imitates and personifies him, saying, as he used to do, "yet a little more sleep, a little more slumber," &c. "A little," and yet "sleeps," in the plural. A little he would have, but a little will not serve his turn. {See Trapp on "Pro 6:9"} &c.

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.

Tyndale Open Study Notes

Tyndale Open Resources

24:33-34 This proverb repeats 6:10-11.

Tyndale Open Study Notes — © Tyndale Open Resources, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Geneva Bible (1599)

Geneva Bible translators

Read Prov. 6:10.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the Pro 6:11 note.

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

Said I, is not in Hebrew, chap. vi. 10. (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "I will slumber a while," to rest. Septuagint, "I will enfold my breast in my hands a little." (Haydock)

George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

See this and the following verse in Pro 6:10,11.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

Vers. 33, 34. These verses are a repetition, with very slight variations, Pro_6:10:11 (where see notes), and possibly have been introduced here by a later editor. Ver. 33 seems to be the sluggard"s own words; Ver. 34 shows the result of his sloth. There are numberless proverbs dedicated to this subject in all languages; e.g. "No sweat, no sweet;" "No pains, no gains; .... He that wad eat the kernel maun crack the nut;" "A punadas entran las buenas hadas," "Good luck enters by dint of cuffs" (Spanish); "Nihil agendo male agere discimus; .... The dog in the kennel," say the Chinese. "barks at his fleas; the dog that hunts does not feel them" (Kelly). "Sloth and much sleep," say the Arabs, "remove from God and bring on poverty." The LXX is somewhat dramatic in its rendering: "Afterwards I repented (metenohsa ), I looked that I might receive instruction. "I slumber a little, I sleep a little, for a little I clasp (enagkalizomai ) my hands across my breast." But if thou do this, thy poverty will come advancing, and thy want like a good runner (agayov )" The word enagkalizomai occurs in Pro_6:10, but nowhere else in the Septuagint. It is used by St. Mark. (Mar_9:36 10:16) It has been thought that the original mashal ended with Ver. 32, the following passage being added by a scribe as illustrative in a marginal note, which afterwards crept into the text.

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

v. 33. Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep, that being the thought governing the actions of the slothful;

Paul E. Kretzmann, Popular Commentary of the Bible (1921–1924) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Lesson kit

Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.

Proverbs, in the Wisdom, opens this verse with 8 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is chibbuq (“folding”). The Greek Septuagint runs longer here. A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. How does “folding” (chibbuq) shape what this verse is saying?
  2. How does Proverbs 6:10, which shares the word «folding», read alongside this verse?
  3. What does the repetition of “few” (3× in this one verse) do in this verse?
  4. The Septuagint runs longer here than the Hebrew. What might account for the difference?
  5. The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
  6. «לִשְׁכָּֽב» is a Qal Infinitive Construct verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  7. Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Tyndale Open Study Notes read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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