Proverbs 3:10

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

So your barns will be filled with plenty, And your vats will overflow with new wine.

World English Bible · Public Domain

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אֲסָמֶ֣יךָ

ʼâçâm

H618

“storehouses · your”

Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular

Appears 2× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Deuteronomy 28:8

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from an unused root meaning to heap together, a storehouse (only in the plural)

TWOT: 139a

storehouse, barn

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

6: words
6: distinct lemmas
Wisdom: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is אֲסָמֶ֣יךָ storehouse H618 — appearing just 2 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

אֲסָמֶ֣יךָ storehouse H618 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Deuteronomy 28:8

Grammatical profile

2 verbs
4 nouns

Verb forms

וְיִמָּלְא֣וּ Niphal · Imperfect
יִפְרֹֽצוּ Qal · Imperfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 16 words from the Hebrew and 18 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

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.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Proverbs 3:10 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Proverbs 19:17 He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; He will reward him.
Deuteronomy 28:8 Yahweh will command the blessing on you in your barns, and in all that you put your hand to; and he will bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
Proverbs 11:24–25 There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.
Proverbs 22:9 He who has a generous eye will be blessed; For he shares his food with the poor.
Joel 2:24 The threshing floors will be full of wheat, And the vats will overflow with new wine and oil.
2 Corinthians 9:6–11 Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
Ecclesiastes 11:1–2 Cast your bread on the waters; For you shall find it after many days.
Haggai 2:19 Is the seed yet in the barn? Yes, the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree haven't brought forth. From this day will I bless you.'"

Malachi 3:10–11 Bring the whole tithe into the store-house, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this," says Yahweh of hosts, "if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough for.
Leviticus 26:2–5 "'You shall keep my Sabbaths, and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am Yahweh.
Matthew 10:42 Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most assuredly I tell you he will in no way lose his reward."

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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.

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Hebrew Proverbs 3:10 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְיִמָּלְא֣וּ אֲסָמֶ֣יךָ שָׂבָ֑ע וְ֝תִיר֗וֹשׁ יְקָבֶ֥יךָ יִפְרֹֽצוּ

So your barns will be filled with plenty, And your vats will overflow with new wine.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Proverbs 3:10 Septuagint · lemma form

ἵνα πίμπλημι ὁ ταμιεῖον σύ πλησμονή σῖτος οἶνος δέ ὁ ληνός σύ ἐκβλύζω

that your storehouses may be completely filled with corn, and that your presses may burst forth with wine.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

On this verse, John Gill's Exposition 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 3:10 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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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

10. presses shall burst out] Rather, fats shall overflow, R.V. “The wine-press of the Jews consisted of two receptacles or vats placed at different elevations, in the upper one of which the grapes were trodden, while the lower one received the expressed juice. The two vats are mentioned together only in Joe_3:13, ‘The press (gath) is full, the vats (yekebim) overflow,’ the upper vat being full of fruit, the lower one overflowing with the must. Yekeb is similarly applied in Joe_2:24, and probably in Pro_3:10, where the verb rendered burst out in the A.V. may bear the more general sense of abound.” Smith’s Dict. of Bible, Art. Wine-press.

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.

Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Pro 3:10 So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.

Ver. 10. So shall thy barns be filled.] The Jews at this day, though not in their own country, nor have a Levitical priesthood, yet those who will be reputed religious among them do distribute the tenth of their increase unto the poor, being persuaded that God doth bless their increase the more; for their usual proverb is, Decima, ut dives fias. {a} Pay thy tithes, that thou mayest be rich. {See Trapp on "Mat 5:7"}

{a} Godwyn’s Heb. Antiq. 277. Thegnaler hischilshe thegnasher.

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.

Geneva Bible (1599)

Geneva Bible translators

For the faithful distributor God giveth in greater abundance.

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

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown

presses--or wine fats (Joe 2:24; Joe 3:13).

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(10) Presses.—Or vats, into which the newly pressed juice flowed: the “winefat” of Mar_12:1. (Comp. the promise to follow upon payment of tithes, Mal_3:8-12.)

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

So shall thy barns be filled with plenty,.... With plenty of corn; so that there will be a sufficient provision of bread for the eater for the ensuing year, and of seed for the sower when the time of sowing returns; so far should they be, it suggests, from being losers by honouring the Lord with their substance, that they should be gainers by it; instead of having less, should have abundantly more;

and thy presses shall burst out with new wine; not that they should really burst (q) for then the wine would be spilled, which would be a loss; but that they should be so full, that they should be ready to burst or run over: and so the Targum, and the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Arabic versions, render it, "and thy presses shall overflow with new wine". As the former clause denotes plenty of eatables, so this of drinkables; and both fulness of all sorts of provisions, promised to the liberal man; and may be an emblem of the large provisions of grace and glory, which the Lord has made for and bestows upon such that honour him.

(q) A like figure see in Virgil. Georgic. l. 1. v. 49. "---ruperunt horrea messes".

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare the marginal reference. This fullness of outward blessings does not exclude the thought of the “chastening” Pro 3:11, without which the discipline of life would be incomplete. “Presses” are the vats of a Roman vineyard, into which the wine flowed through pipe from the wine-press.

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

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

This is not the way to diminish thy estate, as covetous and profane persons allege, but rather to increase it.

Shall burst out; shall be so filled, that they would burst out, if not carefully prevented.

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

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel D. Whedon

10. Barns — Storehouses or granaries.

Presses — Either presses or vats, thy wine vats shall overflow with new wine. Comp. Deu_28:1-8. For winepress or vat, compare Isa_5:2; Jdg_6:11; Mat_21:33.

Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

So - This is not the way to diminish thy estate, but rather to increase it.

John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.

Lesson kit

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Proverbs, in the Wisdom, opens this verse with 6 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼâçâm (“storehouse”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word ʼâçâm carries the sense “storehouse.” How does it shape the verse?
How does Deuteronomy 28:8, which shares the word «storehouse», read alongside this verse?
These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
«וְיִמָּלְא֣וּ» is a Niphal Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Compare how The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges and Trapp's Complete Commentary read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

These translations choose different wording for 12 words in this verse.
6 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 6 words in this verse.