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Proverbs 11

American Standard Version, Verse 17

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¹⁷ The merciful man doeth good to his own soul; But he that is cruel troubleth his own flesh.

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Relevant source witnesses currently attached to Proverbs 11:17. Some ancient sources use different book or verse structures, so availability notes call out gaps honestly instead of forcing five panels everywhere.

Panels 5

Word Entries 51

Editorial Notes 0

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Westminster Leningrad Codex Hebrew · Hebrew Bible · Public Domain

Source

Coverage: Old Testament / Hebrew Bible

Primary Hebrew source-text witness for the Hebrew Bible.

גֹּמֵ֣ל נַ֭פְשׁוֹ אִ֣ישׁ חָ֑סֶד וְעֹכֵ֥ר שְׁ֝אֵר֗וֹ אַכְזָרִֽי׃

7 word entries

גֹּמֵ֣ל

Lemma: 1580
Morphology: Hebrew: verb qal participle active
Part of Speech: verb
Strong's: H1580
Occurrences: 30

נַ֭פְשׁוֹ

Lemma: 5315
Morphology: Hebrew: noun common both gender singular construct + suffix
Part of Speech: noun
Strong's: H5315
Occurrences: 576

אִ֣ישׁ

Lemma: 376
Morphology: Hebrew: noun common masculine singular construct
Part of Speech: noun
Strong's: H376
Occurrences: 1458

חָ֑סֶד

Lemma: 2617 a
Morphology: Hebrew: noun common masculine singular absolute
Part of Speech: noun
Strong's: H2617
Occurrences: 193

וְעֹכֵ֥ר

Lemma: c/5916
Morphology: Hebrew: conjunction + verb qal participle active
Part of Speech: conjunction
Strong's: H5916
Occurrences: 2

שְׁ֝אֵר֗וֹ

Lemma: 7607
Morphology: Hebrew: noun common masculine singular construct + suffix
Part of Speech: noun
Strong's: H7607
Occurrences: 10

אַכְזָרִֽי

Lemma: 394
Morphology: Hebrew: adjective
Part of Speech: adjective
Strong's: H394
Occurrences: 7

Greek Brenton Septuagint Greek · Septuagint / Brenton Greek tradition · Public Domain

Source

Coverage: Old Testament and Apocrypha where imported

Ancient Greek translation tradition. Every imported LXX token is classified with confidence labels; rare/generated forms remain needs-review rather than hand-verified scholarship.

Τῇ ψυχῇ αὐτοῦ ἀγαθὸν ποιεῖ ἀνὴρ ἐλεήμων, ἐξολλύει δὲ αὐτοῦ σῶμα ὁ ἀνελεήμων.

13 word entries

Τῇ

Status: Rule-aligned morphology
Confidence: medium high
Confidence note: Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
Lemma: ὁ
Transliteration: ho
Morphology: definite article, nominative masculine singular
Gloss: the
Part of Speech: article
Definition: Greek definite article.
Strong's: G3588
Occurrences: 80473

ψυχῇ

Status: Rule-aligned morphology
Confidence: medium high
Confidence note: Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
Lemma: ψυχή
Transliteration: psyche
Morphology: noun, feminine nominative singular
Gloss: soul, life
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: Soul, life, self, or living being.
Occurrences: 809

αὐτοῦ

Status: Rule-aligned morphology
Confidence: medium high
Confidence note: Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
Lemma: αὐτός
Transliteration: autos
Morphology: pronoun, nominative masculine singular
Gloss: he, himself
Part of Speech: pronoun
Definition: Third-person personal/intensive pronoun.
Occurrences: 26672

ἀγαθὸν

Status: Rule-aligned morphology
Confidence: medium high
Confidence note: Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
Lemma: ἀγαθός
Transliteration: agathon
Morphology: adjective, accusative masculine singular or nominative/accusative neuter singular
Gloss: good
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: Good, beneficial, noble, or upright.
Occurrences: 290

ποιεῖ

Status: Rule-aligned morphology
Confidence: medium
Confidence note: Broad rule-aligned LXX morphology pattern. This is a generated morphology/part-of-speech layer intended for progress and searchability, not a hand-reviewed scholarly parse.
Lemma: ποιεῖ
Transliteration: poiei
Morphology: dative singular or indeclinable form pattern
Gloss: ...
Part of Speech: noun/adjective form
Definition: Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
Occurrences: 34

ἀνὴρ

Status: Rule-aligned morphology
Confidence: medium high
Confidence note: Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
Lemma: ἀνήρ
Transliteration: aner
Morphology: noun, masculine nominative singular
Gloss: man, husband
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: Man, male, husband.
Occurrences: 1573

ἐλεήμων

Status: Rule-aligned morphology
Confidence: medium
Confidence note: Broad rule-aligned LXX morphology pattern. This is a generated morphology/part-of-speech layer intended for progress and searchability, not a hand-reviewed scholarly parse.
Lemma: ἐλεήμων
Transliteration: eleemon
Morphology: Greek -ων form; often genitive plural noun/adjective or nominative masculine participle
Gloss: of ... / being ...
Part of Speech: participle/noun form
Definition: Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
Occurrences: 21

ἐξολλύει

Status: Rule-aligned morphology
Confidence: low
Confidence note: Rare-form generated LXX morphology pattern. This improves coverage and searchability, but should be treated as low-confidence until reviewed against the verse context.
Lemma: ἐξολλύει
Transliteration: exollyei
Morphology: dative singular or indeclinable form pattern
Gloss: ...
Part of Speech: noun/adjective form
Definition: Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
Occurrences: 1

δὲ

Status: Rule-aligned morphology
Confidence: medium high
Confidence note: Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
Lemma: δέ
Transliteration: de
Morphology: postpositive conjunction/particle
Gloss: but, and, now
Part of Speech: conjunction/particle
Definition: Postpositive connective conjunction.
Occurrences: 4634

αὐτοῦ

Status: Rule-aligned morphology
Confidence: medium high
Confidence note: Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
Lemma: αὐτός
Transliteration: autos
Morphology: pronoun, nominative masculine singular
Gloss: he, himself
Part of Speech: pronoun
Definition: Third-person personal/intensive pronoun.
Occurrences: 26672

σῶμα

Status: Rule-aligned morphology
Confidence: medium high
Confidence note: Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
Lemma: σῶμα
Transliteration: soma
Morphology: noun, neuter nominative/accusative singular
Gloss: body
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: Body.
Occurrences: 66

ὁ

Status: Rule-aligned morphology
Confidence: medium high
Confidence note: Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
Lemma: ὁ
Transliteration: ho
Morphology: definite article, nominative masculine singular
Gloss: the
Part of Speech: article
Definition: Greek definite article.
Strong's: G3588
Occurrences: 80473

ἀνελεήμων

Status: Rule-aligned morphology
Confidence: medium
Confidence note: Broad rule-aligned LXX morphology pattern. This is a generated morphology/part-of-speech layer intended for progress and searchability, not a hand-reviewed scholarly parse.
Lemma: ἀνελεήμων
Transliteration: aneleemon
Morphology: Greek -ων form; often genitive plural noun/adjective or nominative masculine participle
Gloss: of ... / being ...
Part of Speech: participle/noun form
Definition: Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
Occurrences: 4

Syriac Peshitta Old Testament Syriac · Syriac Peshitta · MIT License

Source

Coverage: Old Testament and selected Apocrypha

Ancient Syriac translation tradition. Text coverage is imported; word-level morphology is marked pending until a dedicated Syriac morphology source is attached.

ܓܒܪܐ ܚܣܝܐ ܪܡܐ ܠܢܦܫܗ ܚ̈ܘܒܠܐ ܛܒ̈ܐ ܘܡܘܒܕ ܦܓܪܗ ܓܒܪܐ ܕܠܐ ܡܪܚܡ

11 word entries

ܓܒܪܐ

Confidence: low preliminary Syriac pattern
Note: Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
Lemma: ܓܒܪܐ
Transliteration: gbr'
Morphology: probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
Occurrences: 622

ܚܣܝܐ

Confidence: low preliminary Syriac pattern
Note: Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
Lemma: ܚܣܝܐ
Transliteration: hsy'
Morphology: probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
Occurrences: 7

ܪܡܐ

Confidence: low preliminary Syriac pattern
Note: Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
Lemma: ܪܡܐ
Transliteration: rm'
Morphology: probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
Occurrences: 119

ܠܢܦܫܗ

Confidence: low preliminary Syriac pattern
Note: Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
Lemma: ܠܢܦܫܗ
Transliteration: lnpshh
Morphology: Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; possible prefixed preposition l-
Occurrences: 14

ܚ̈ܘܒܠܐ

Confidence: low preliminary Syriac pattern
Note: Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
Lemma: ܚܘܒܠܐ
Transliteration: hwbl'
Morphology: probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
Occurrences: 6

ܛܒ̈ܐ

Confidence: low preliminary Syriac pattern
Note: Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
Lemma: ܛܒܐ
Transliteration: tb'
Morphology: probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
Occurrences: 113

ܘܡܘܒܕ

Confidence: low preliminary Syriac pattern
Note: Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
Lemma: ܘܡܘܒܕ
Transliteration: wmwbd
Morphology: Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; prefixed conjunction
Occurrences: 6

ܦܓܪܗ

Confidence: low preliminary Syriac pattern
Note: Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
Lemma: ܦܓܪܗ
Transliteration: pgrh
Morphology: Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
Occurrences: 13

ܓܒܪܐ

Confidence: low preliminary Syriac pattern
Note: Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
Lemma: ܓܒܪܐ
Transliteration: gbr'
Morphology: probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
Occurrences: 622

ܕܠܐ

Confidence: low preliminary Syriac pattern
Note: Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
Lemma: ܕܠܐ
Transliteration: dl'
Morphology: probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; possible prefixed relative/genitive marker d-
Occurrences: 1157

ܡܪܚܡ

Confidence: low preliminary Syriac pattern
Note: Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
Lemma: ܡܪܚܡ
Transliteration: mrhm
Morphology: Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
Occurrences: 12

Targumim on Prophets and Writings Aramaic · Targum Jonathan and Writings Targumim · Public Domain

Source

Coverage: Prophets, Psalms, Job, Proverbs, Megillot, and Chronicles. Torah Onkelos excluded pending commercial-safe licensing.

Jewish Aramaic interpretive translation tradition. Use as a Targum witness, not as a one-for-one original-language replacement.

פָּרֵיעַ טָבְתָא לְנַפְשֵׁיהּ גַבְרָא חֲסִידָא וּדְמוֹבֵד גוּשְׁמֵיהּ נַכְזְרָיָא׃

8 word entries

פָּרֵיעַ

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: פריע
Transliteration: pry'
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic source token
Occurrences: 26

טָבְתָא

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: טבתא
Transliteration: tbt'
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
Occurrences: 77

לְנַפְשֵׁיהּ

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: נפשיה
Transliteration: lnpshyh
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
Occurrences: 106

גַבְרָא

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: גברא
Transliteration: gbr'
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
Occurrences: 524

חֲסִידָא

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: חסידא
Transliteration: chsyd'
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
Occurrences: 11

וּדְמוֹבֵד

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: דמובד
Transliteration: wdmwbd
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic token with prefixed conjunction
Occurrences: 1

גוּשְׁמֵיהּ

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: גושמיה
Transliteration: gwshmyh
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic source token
Occurrences: 4

נַכְזְרָיָא׃

Status: Preliminary machine alignment
Confidence: low aramaic preliminary
Note: Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
Lemma: נכזריא
Transliteration: nkzry'
Morphology: preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
Occurrences: 1

Latin Vulgate Clementine Latin · Latin Vulgate · Public Domain text; CC BY-SA 4.0 morphology

Source

Coverage: Bible and Apocrypha where imported

Latin textual tradition with GreLa-backed lemma/POS morphology for most tokens.

[Benefacit animæ suæ vir misericors; qui autem crudelis est, etiam propinquos abjicit.

12 word entries

benefacit

Status: Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma: benefacio
Transliteration: benefacit
Morphology: GreLa POS: verb
Occurrences: 37

animae

Status: Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma: anima
Transliteration: animae
Morphology: GreLa POS: noun
Occurrences: 916

suae

Status: Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma: suus
Transliteration: suae
Morphology: GreLa POS: pronoun
Occurrences: 5783

vir

Status: Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma: uir
Transliteration: vir
Morphology: GreLa POS: noun
Occurrences: 1641

misericors

Status: Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma: misericors
Transliteration: misericors
Morphology: GreLa POS: adjective
Occurrences: 36

qui

Status: Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma: qui
Transliteration: qui
Morphology: GreLa POS: pronoun
Occurrences: 15011

autem

Status: Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma: autem
Transliteration: autem
Morphology: GreLa POS: coordinating conjunction
Occurrences: 5069

crudelis

Status: Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma: crudelis
Transliteration: crudelis
Morphology: GreLa POS: adjective
Occurrences: 18

est

Status: Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma: sum
Transliteration: est
Morphology: GreLa POS: verb
Occurrences: 20614

Status: Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma: et
Transliteration: et
Morphology: GreLa POS: coordinating conjunction
Gloss: and
Part of Speech: conjunction
Definition: and, also, even
Etymology: Basic Latin coordinating conjunction.
Occurrences: 50526

propinquos

Status: Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma: propinqui
Transliteration: propinquos
Morphology: GreLa POS: noun
Occurrences: 10

abicit

Status: Dataset-backed morphology
Lemma: abicio
Transliteration: abicit
Morphology: GreLa POS: verb
Occurrences: 56

Ranked cross references

Connections are ranked by community votes in the OpenBible.info cross-reference dataset (CC BY 4.0). They suggest related themes, words, events, or people; they are not automatic interpretations.

Matthew 5:7

Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

11 relevance votes

James 2:13

For judgment is without mercy to him that hath showed no mercy: mercy glorieth against judgment.

5 relevance votes

Daniel 4:27

Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by showing mercy to the poor; if there may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity.

3 relevance votes

Philippians 4:17

Not that I seek for the gift; but I seek for the fruit that increaseth to your account.

3 relevance votes

Isaiah 57:1

The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come .

2 relevance votes

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is one that is alone, and he hath not a second; yea, he hath neither son nor brother; yet is there no end of all his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with riches. For whom then, saith he , do I labor, and deprive my soul of good? This also is vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.

2 relevance votes

Proverbs 15:27

He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; But he that hateth bribes shall live.

2 relevance votes

Luke 6:38

give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, shall they give into your bosom. For with what measure ye mete it shall be measured to you again.

2 relevance votes

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